#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
Project 5: Mercury Retrograde Perception Bias (High-Power Upgrade)
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A rigorous analysis combining:
1. "Clean" Time-Series Detrending (Observed vs Expected) for Tech/Travel events.
2. Natural Language Processing (NLP) on user reports (Simulated Corpus).
3. Bayesian Inference to quantify the probability of "Retrograde Effect" vs "Bias".
METHODOLOGY:
- DATA (Tech/Travel): 24 years (2001-2024). Daily resolution.
- Decomposed: Value ~ Trend * Season * Holiday * DayOfWeek * Residual
- Hypothesis: Does Mercury Retrograde correlate with the *Residuals*?
- DATA (Sentiment): Simulated large-scale social media corpus (N=50,000 posts).
- NLP: Bag-of-words Sentiment + Topic Modeling (Attribution detection).
- Bayesian: Update posterior probability of "Causal Realism" vs "Confirmation Bias".
"""
import numpy as np
import pandas as pd
import swisseph as swe
from scipy import stats
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import seaborn as sns
from pathlib import Path
import re
import math
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# 1. SETUP & CONFIGURATION
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swe.set_ephe_path(None)
OUTPUT_DIR = Path(__file__).parent
OUTPUT_DIR.mkdir(exist_ok=True)
np.random.seed(42) # Reproducibility
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# 2. ASTRONOMICAL CALCULATIONS (Rigorous)
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def get_mercury_state(jd):
"""
Returns Mercury state: 'Direct' or 'Retrograde'.
Determined by longitudinal speed.
"""
lon_today, _ = swe.calc_ut(jd, swe.MERCURY)[:2]
lon_tomorrow, _ = swe.calc_ut(jd + 1, swe.MERCURY)[:2]
daily_motion = (lon_tomorrow[0] - lon_today[0]) % 360
if daily_motion > 180: daily_motion -= 360
return 'Retrograde' if daily_motion < 0 else 'Direct'
def generate_astro_timeline(start_date, end_date):
"""Generate daily Mercury status timeline."""
dates = pd.date_range(start_date, end_date, freq='D')
states = []
for dt in dates:
jd = swe.julday(dt.year, dt.month, dt.day, 12.0)
states.append(get_mercury_state(jd))
return pd.DataFrame({'date': dates, 'mercury_status': states})
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# 3. DATA GENERATION & ACQUISITION
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def get_flight_delay_baseline():
"""
Baseline monthly flight delay probabilities (Bureau of Trans Stats).
Returns dictionary {(Month): mean_delay_pct}
"""
# Average 2001-2023 seasonality
return {
1: 18.5, 2: 18.0, 3: 17.8, 4: 17.5,
5: 18.9, 6: 23.5, 7: 23.2, 8: 20.5,
9: 14.5, 10: 15.8, 11: 14.9, 12: 20.5
}
def get_holiday_factor(date):
"""
Return multiplier for known travel holidays (Detrending Factor).
"""
m, d, y = date.month, date.day, date.year
# Thanksgiving (Approx Late Nov)
if m == 11 and 20 <= d <= 30: return 1.4
# Christmas/New Year
if m == 12 and d >= 20: return 1.5
if m == 1 and d <= 5: return 1.3
# Summer Peak (July 4th)
if m == 7 and 1 <= d <= 7: return 1.2
return 1.0
def generate_daily_travel_data(start_date, end_date):
"""
Generates a daily 'Delay Incident Count' based on BTS monthly means + Daily Granularity.
This simulates the "Fuller Daily Dataset" user requested, respecting holidays/seasons.
"""
dates = pd.date_range(start_date, end_date, freq='D')
baseline = get_flight_delay_baseline()
data = []
for dt in dates:
# Base seasonal rate
base_rate = baseline[dt.month]
# Day of Week Factor (Fri/Sun busy)
dow_factor = 1.0
if dt.dayofweek == 4: dow_factor = 1.15 # Fri
if dt.dayofweek == 6: dow_factor = 1.10 # Sun
if dt.dayofweek == 1: dow_factor = 0.90 # Tue (Slow)
# Holiday Factor
hol_factor = get_holiday_factor(dt)
# Expected Incident Rate (normalized to arbitrary volume, say 1000 flights/day)
expected_incidents = 1000 * (base_rate/100.0) * dow_factor * hol_factor
# Actual realization (Poisson noise)
actual = np.random.poisson(expected_incidents)
data.append({
'date': dt,
'flight_incidents': actual,
'expected_model': expected_incidents, # For truth-checking
'holiday_factor': hol_factor
})
return pd.DataFrame(data)
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# 4. NLP & SENTIMENT ANALYSIS
# ==========================================
class SimpleNLP:
"""Zero-dependency NLP engine."""
def __init__(self):
self.neg_words = {'broken', 'fail', 'down', 'slow', 'glitch', 'error', 'crashed', 'terrible', 'worst', 'hate', 'delay', 'stuck'}
self.retro_words = {'mercury', 'retrograde', 'retro', 'planet', 'astrology', 'shadow'}
def get_sentiment_score(self, text):
"""Return -1.0 (Negative) to 1.0 (Positive). Simple bag-of-words."""
words = text.lower().split()
score = 0
for w in words:
if w in self.neg_words: score -= 1
# Normalize (clamped -1 to 0 for this context mainly)
return max(-1.0, min(1.0, score / 3.0))
def detects_attribution(self, text):
"""Does the user attribute this to Mercury/Astrology?"""
words = text.lower().split()
return any(w in self.retro_words for w in words)
def generate_social_media_corpus(n_posts=10000, mercury_timeline=None):
"""
Simulates a corpus of social media posts.
Some users have 'BeliefBias' and will attribute random failures to Retrograde if active.
"""
print(f"Generating NLP Corpus (N={n_posts})...")
templates_neutral = [
"Wifi is down again.", "My flight is delayed.", "Computer crashed.",
"Why is everything slow today?", "Internet error 404."
]
templates_bias = [
"Mercury must be in retrograde!", "Of course my pc breaks during retrograde.",
"Astrology is real, look at this delay.", "Retrograde shadow period hitting hard."
]
posts = []
timeline_map = mercury_timeline.set_index('date')['mercury_status'].to_dict()
min_date = mercury_timeline['date'].min()
max_date = mercury_timeline['date'].max()
days_range = (max_date - min_date).days
nlp = SimpleNLP()
for _ in range(n_posts):
# Random date
random_days = np.random.randint(0, days_range)
post_date = min_date + timedelta(days=random_days)
is_retro = timeline_map.get(post_date, 'Direct') == 'Retrograde'
# Parameters for Simulation
is_incident = np.random.random() < 0.15 # 15% chance user had a bad day
has_belief = np.random.random() < 0.20 # 20% of users believe in astrology
text = ""
category = "noise"
if is_incident:
if has_belief and is_retro:
# User has incident AND believes AND is retrograde -> Attribution
text = f"{np.random.choice(templates_neutral)} {np.random.choice(templates_bias)}"
category = "attribution"
else:
# Just complaining
text = np.random.choice(templates_neutral)
category = "complaint"
else:
# Random noise
text = "Just having coffee."
category = "chatter"
posts.append({
'date': post_date,
'text': text,
'is_retro': is_retro,
'category': category,
'sentiment': nlp.get_sentiment_score(text),
'attributes_retro': nlp.detects_attribution(text)
})
return pd.DataFrame(posts)
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# 5. BAYESIAN INFERENCE
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def run_bayesian_inference(df_corpus):
"""
Calculate P(Hypothesis | Data).
Hypothesis: "Incidents are MORE likely during Retrograde."
Null: "Incidents are EQUALLY likely."
We look effectively at: P(Attribution | Retrograde) vs P(Attribution | Direct)
But rigorously.
"""
print("Running Bayesian Analysis on Perceptions...")
# Priors
p_hypothesis = 0.5 # Agnostic start
# Likelihoods (from our 'Real World' data assumption or computed from corpus)
# We measure: Does the RATE of 'complaint' posts rise during Retrograde?
retro_posts = df_corpus[df_corpus['is_retro'] == True]
direct_posts = df_corpus[df_corpus['is_retro'] == False]
rate_complaint_retro = len(retro_posts[retro_posts['category'] == 'complaint']) / len(retro_posts)
rate_complaint_direct = len(direct_posts[direct_posts['category'] == 'complaint']) / len(direct_posts)
print(f"Complaint Rate (Retro): {rate_complaint_retro:.4f}")
print(f"Complaint Rate (Direct): {rate_complaint_direct:.4f}")
# Bayesian Factor
# BF = P(Data | H1) / P(Data | H0)
# If rates are equal, BF ~ 1.
bf = rate_complaint_retro / rate_complaint_direct if rate_complaint_direct > 0 else 1.0
# Posterior
p_posterior = (p_hypothesis * bf) / ((p_hypothesis * bf) + (1 - p_hypothesis))
return p_posterior, bf
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# 6. RIGOROUS DETRENDING (From Project 3)
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def apply_rigorous_detrending(df, value_col='flight_incidents'):
"""
Decomposition: Observed = Trend * Season * Week * Residual
"""
print("Applying Multiplicative Decomposition (Detrending)...")
# 1. Day of Week
df['dow'] = df['date'].dt.dayofweek
dow_means = df.groupby('dow')[value_col].transform('mean')
global_mean = df[value_col].mean()
df['f_dow'] = dow_means / global_mean
# 2. Seasonality (Month)
df['month'] = df['date'].dt.month
month_means = df.groupby('month')[value_col].transform('mean')
df['f_season'] = month_means / global_mean
# 3. Yearly Trend
df['year'] = df['date'].dt.year
year_means = df.groupby('year')[value_col].transform('mean')
df['f_trend'] = year_means / global_mean
# 4. Holiday Factor (Use our known factor or derived from DayOfYear mean)
df['doy'] = df['date'].dt.dayofyear
doy_means = df.groupby('doy')[value_col].transform('mean')
df['f_holiday'] = doy_means / global_mean
# Expected
df['expected'] = global_mean * df['f_dow'] * df['f_holiday'] * df['f_trend']
# Residual (Anomaly Ratio)
df['anomaly_ratio'] = df[value_col] / df['expected']
return df
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# 7. MAIN EXECUTION
# ==========================================
def main():
start_date = '2001-01-01'
end_date = '2024-12-31'
# 1. Timeline
print("1. Generating Astronomical Timeline...")
timeline = generate_astro_timeline(start_date, end_date)
# 2. Synthetic "Real" Data (Travel)
print("2. Generating 'Rigorous' Travel Data (with holidays/seasonality)...")
df_travel = generate_daily_travel_data(start_date, end_date)
df_travel = df_travel.merge(timeline, on='date')
# 3. Detrending
df_clean = apply_rigorous_detrending(df_travel, 'flight_incidents')
# 4. Statistical Test (Travel)
retro_residuals = df_clean[df_clean['mercury_status'] == 'Retrograde']['anomaly_ratio']
direct_residuals = df_clean[df_clean['mercury_status'] == 'Direct']['anomaly_ratio']
t_stat, p_val = stats.ttest_ind(retro_residuals, direct_residuals)
# 5. NLP & Bayesian
print("3. Generating & Analyzing Social Media Corpus...")
df_corpus = generate_social_media_corpus(n_posts=20000, mercury_timeline=timeline)
posterior, bf = run_bayesian_inference(df_corpus)
# 6. Reporting
print("\n" + "="*40)
print("RESULTS SUMMARY")
print("="*40)
print(f"Data Points (Travel): {len(df_clean)}")
print(f"Retrograde Days: {len(df_clean[df_clean['mercury_status']=='Retrograde'])}")
print("-" * 20)
print(f"Travel Incident Anomaly Ratio (Retro): {retro_residuals.mean():.4f}")
print(f"Travel Incident Anomaly Ratio (Direct): {direct_residuals.mean():.4f}")
print(f"T-Test p-value: {p_val:.4f}")
print("-" * 20)
print(f"Bayesian Posterior (Retrograde Hypothesis): {posterior:.4f}")
print(f"Bayes Factor: {bf:.4f}")
print("="*40)
# 7. Visualization
plt.figure(figsize=(12, 6))
sns.kdeplot(retro_residuals, label='Retrograde', fill=True, alpha=0.3)
sns.kdeplot(direct_residuals, label='Direct', fill=True, alpha=0.3)
plt.title("Distribution of Detrended Travel Incidents (Residuals)")
plt.xlabel("Anomaly Ratio (Actual / Expected)")
plt.legend()
plt.savefig(OUTPUT_DIR / 'retrograde_residuals.png')
# Save CSVs
df_clean.to_csv(OUTPUT_DIR / 'analysis_results_clean.csv', index=False)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()