Visual Explorations in Finance: With Self-Organizing Maps Book

	Contributing Authors
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Applications
1	Let Financial Data Speak for Themselves	3
2	Projection of Long-term Interest Rates with Maps	24
3	Picking Mutual Funds with Self-Organizing Maps	39
4	Maps for Analyzing Failures of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises	59
5	Self-Organizing Atlas of Russian Banks	72
6	Investment Maps of Emerging Markets	83
7	A Hybrid Neural Network System for Trading Financial Markets	106
8	Real Estate Investment Appraisal of Land Properties using SOM	117
9	Real Estate Investment Appraisal of Buildings using SOM	128
10	Differential Patterns in Consumer Purchase Preferences using Self-Organizing Maps: A Case Study of China	141
Pt. 2	Methodology, Tools and Techniques
11	The SOM Methodology	159
12	Self-Organizing Maps of Large Document Collections	168
13	Software Tools for Self-Organizing Maps	179
14	Tips for Processing and Color-coding of Self-Organizing Maps	195
15	Best Practices in Data Mining using Self-Organizing Maps	203
	Notes
	Glossary
	Bibliography
	Subject Index
	Author Index
	Website Index