If they wanted to fork out around 25$ a year could this be a quick and easy option: https://smfmobile.com/ 

This is a simple machines forum driven forum.

I keep getting a transaction out of gas for the presale address, and when I looked at the address all of its transactions were out of gas.

Any reason for this?

I am almost considering just not touching any coins which are not open source.  Might miss some opportunities but would really save a lot of time and headaches.

DreamTeam is about to do their Presale.  They have a working platform that you can sign up on and use.
They are also trying to tap into a multi billion dollar industry that doesn't have a good solution yet.  Legal BS really hinders peoples ability to get into professional gaming.  Things like writing up and signing contracts.  Not only does DreamTeam want to set up a professional gaming ecosystem where people can host tournaments, track players, and so on, but everything is managed via smart contracts and easy to use.  It would be my pick for today but depending on how much they raise you might want to wait until after ICO because they are aiming high.

The idea was around long before that.  

I actually was trying to start a project called 'Landmarks' which was meant to develop 'location based faucets' and the Geocoin team even used some of my writing word for word in their ICO after contacting me after posting my idea and discussing similarities with their project (yes I have proof).  Location based faucets being ones you can access with a GPS enabled smart phone and actually have to be at the location.

It is a little unfortunate because they did not follow through with the vision.  First of all a portion of the coins would be released slowly over time at 'landmarks' or location based faucets at different landmarks like the statue of liberty.  A number of coins would be sold via ICO.

What I wanted to do was several things:  let merchants set up location based faucets through our web portal which they could load with coins and configure.  The idea was that by giving away free coins at your custom faucet at your store you would attract traffic.  Second I wanted to set up landmarks or fun faucets that gave out coins over time to whoever visted, each with their own icon on the map and info screen.  Third I wanted to hold 'scavenger hunts' where certain landmarks would pay out big but to find them you had to follow clues.

We had graphics and other things, but when I found out what was needed in terms of development I decided to let the Geocoin team pursue the idea and not compete with them.  But they just did not follow through with the vision...  It could have been so much better Geocoin guys!

This was before Pokemon go too.

We could rather easily make an app to simply view posts, with a modern and responsive user interface.  The login system would take a bit more consideration.
I would want it to be sanctioned by and involve the bitcointalk admins for several reasons though. 

Since I am seeing a lot of Cardano spam yet it has been around since 2014 does anyone know what triggered the surge?  No guesses or shill answers please.
It makes me nervous to see a bunch of almost arbitrarily timed spam correlating with such a pump.  Cardano has been in development for awhile and meets milestones every now and then, so why is it different this time?  People trying to find the next bitcoin contributes but there are many other candidates for this.
Not sure if I really like the whole 'scientific' bit.  Not sure how their 'peer reviewed' process necessarily results in better technology than other engineering ventures in the coin world.

I will look through these.

I started a little coin analysis project for pump prediction as part of some silly idea for a coin/smart contract which locks trades if a pump is detected..  Not sure how to automatically label the movements as pump/dump or not at the time and doing it by hand was difficult.  

One way we can possibly find and label pump/dumps is just looking for 'pump' and 'dump' word frequencies during that time or after. People tend to discuss the pump/dump after it occurs so we might be able to take advantage of this to collect data and build features.  One of the big goals of this project is to link features to coins be it features over time or in general.

There will be natural spikes followed by corrections which look like pump/dumps but are not because no malicious shilling/pumping occurred.  The additional features might let us see differences as the dynamics of discussion would be different.

Erichallig:  I can guarantee that is not the first Robo advisor for cryptocurrency.  The first robo advisors were probably set up shortly after Bitcoin gained value and likely not for public use.

Actually this is one of the best things that could happen to ethereum.  It will drive adaptation which will be needed when more decentralized apps come out.

The statement that they have all the congestion issues of CryptoKitties ironed out is quite bold.   Since there is no whitepaper posted yet can you explain how they manage TX payments better?  Also, could they let users list multiple pets for sale with one call to a smart contract?

1.  How do you distinguish pumps/dumps with actual surges and delines due to interest?  The hand coded rules you suggest are a little arbitrarily chosen.
    There are places where both supervised and unsupervised learning could help.  Too bad we don't have labeled data for training.  Clustering might be fun.
    When we did GPS stream analysis for seismic event detection the movement time series were clustered into groups which defined based patterns of movement, that was a fun one.
    Many methods for working with and comparing time series, know any good distance measures?  Time warping helps but might not be best because we don't want to match a slow growth/decline pattern with a pump/dump pattern.

2.  Identifying 'pump coins' using these features and additional machine learning would be awesome.  If you have hand coded rules or a machine learning generated model for pump/dump detection then we can use the resulting time series of 'pump/dump', 'natural growth', etc as features.  Again having coins labeled as 'pump' coins would be very very useful.   Supervised and unsupervised approaches could be fruitful.

3.  We have another strategy for identifying shill/scam/pumpdump coins!  I will email you about this as we are still working it out.  It might be useful for identifying shill coins as well as shillers.

4. I have experience doing sentiment analysis.  We built our own system for detecting the emotional polarity of texts which could be useful.  It is not planned for iteration 1 though so don't expect it.

5.  One problem with sentiment analysis is detecting a time window where there are both positive and negative sentiment expresisons.  Don't just want to say that section is neutral, as it happens all the time when shilling occurs as well as naturally.

6.  Some legit coins are pumped and dumped.  Doesn't make them a scam and some eventually do well if you are along term investor.

7.  Volume along with price is important.  One thing that happens pre-pump is an number of small purchases by the pumpers which may or may not become a useful features.

8.  A hype score would be a useful feature.  Most pumpers shill along with the pump.  This is my specialty right now, shilling detection.

9.  I am far far far from an expert.  I got a graduate degree but have many gaps.  I welcome any knowledge and advice.

10.  we will work on different approaches. We will set you up to do with the data as you please.  

Part of it is that Bounty signature campaigns require a certain number of posts in the altcoin discussion thread.  Creating a separate board really won't help unless you convince campaign managers to allow posting there.

In order to move the speculation threads over you would need to hand moderate it.  I could write something which moves things with certain keywords and ngrams but though wouldn't be perfect.  We could use a script to 'flag' certain threads which a moderator could review but a cat and mouse game would ensue.

Bounty hunters and people looking for a quick buck often dump right away also, this should be expected. 

Yeah but if you believe in the project that is a great thing and a great time to buy.  Oyster dropped after the ICO followed by an 800% rebound before stabilizing.  Just invest and hold the coins.

I bet they tried automating this.  Guessing it didn't get too far because I am not sure of the natural language processing skills.

You could theoretically use a variety of 'paraphrasing', for example a paraphrasing algorithm might generate the following similar phrases:

I hate this guy, he is so dumb;
This guy is stupid, I hate him;
I despise this dumb guy.

Just do that on popular thread titles..
Paraphrase the 'comments' from the last thread with the title you used for paraphrasing and 'BAM' you can almost automate a shitposter in terms of both starting threads and commenting on them with their sockpuppets..

And that is one of the less sophisticated ways of doing things.
Maybe I shouldn't be discussing this after all.

We might even see guys with their sockpuppets and their friend's sockpuppets chain quote each other to increase impact scores..

Already know they start threads in (altcoin announcements mostly) just to have somewhere for these accounts to post.

A classic but still relevant:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P2FB9Mg_YI

Can you do 'average price movement' in terms of increase or decrease on the days of week and months of year?

One thing that will throw things off is that we don't have many years of data so the recent surge is going to impact the visualization and drown out yearly patterns.  I mean with only a few years how do you deal with the black swan events that happen in some year but not the others but caused significant change? Throw the year out like it is an outlier?

Seasonal pattern mining is pretty neat though.

Mull everything over, sleep on it, then message in the morning.  Formally started this project two days ago so a lot is still in the planning phase though I am working on prototypes.

But I see no ID!  

 Of course though.  We can put together what type of table you want.

I also have a keen interest in 'feature engineering'.  Oftentimes the success of a data mining operation comes down to the features they use.

And we don't need to put everything in one table!  If we have a key or ID associated with a coin we can have a table of time-stamped sentiment features such as positive or negative sentiment, a table wih certain keyword frequencies ('buy' vs 'sell') for each time step and such.  Then when you want to grab subsets or all of the features for an ICO you can simply join them.  Not worried about the costs of joins.

But the more features the better!  Many data mining algorithms perform their own type of features selection.  
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Glad you put the violin plots in from of the box plots (are those box plots?).
It is definitely cleaner.  With the months the difference is definitely more pronounced.   With regards to T tests (and I agree with a lot of complaints about them) I can't tell how big your sample size so I can't tell how much of the difference in distributions are due to variance and which are due to actual significant differences with the first round which were hard to see.

Anyways,  my focus is on text visualization.  I just started a project (still in early development) which involves visualizing things such as sentiment and semantics with respect to a coin or ICO.  We could look at different keyword frequencies on different days of the week or month for example, using your approach, and compare them with volume or other things to try and weed out why it is that people trade more or less for different months.  

Recommend a good historical price source?  Apis are fine.