Category: financial independence

  • Categorizing Transactions with Machine Learning and rules

    Categorizing Transactions with Machine Learning and rules

    In this post, I’ll demonstrate how combining rules-based systems with machine learning — specifically Random Forest — can significantly improve transaction categorization, particularly for incidental and non-recurring cases. This hybrid approach not only reduces manual efforts but also improves accuracy, helping me make better financial decisions with minimal intervention.

  • Making the rules part of the domain

    Making the rules part of the domain

    In this blogpost I find a way to make the rules part of the domain. Next to that I develop some code so I can store them on disk. Find the resulting code at GitHub.

  • Not getting financial insight

    Not getting financial insight

    TL;DR In this post I describe how I discover some imperfections in the current domain. This hampers me in getting financial insight. I fix these imperfections by creating new Category rules. After creating new rules I refactor the rules in to a simpler form. Furthermore I fix Transaction in the domain. As the found issues…

  • Putting the domain to work

    Putting the domain to work

    In this post I create a way to import transactions and categorize them. Basically putting the earlier created domain to work. In the end I get some insight into my spendings, however not completely done yet. The resulting code can be found at GitHub.

  • financial independence

    financial independence

    Happy new year to everyone I wish you all a healthy and succesful 2016! In my previous post I mentioned that I would explain more about my path to becoming financially independent. What is financial independence According to wikipedia financial independence means: Financial independence is generally used to describe the state of having sufficient personal…