Say you’ve built a little nest egg thanks to some discipline and frugality. And now you realize that you should probably invest that money so that you’ve got something to live off of in retirement. Or perhaps you simply want to earn a better return ...

Say you’ve built a little nest egg thanks to some discipline and frugality. And now you realize that you should probably invest that money so that you’ve got something to live off of in retirement. Or perhaps you simply want to earn a better return ...

LinkedIn | Github | Blog | Subscribe The codebase for a long-suffering hobby project of mine is now stable on Github. The gist of it is, a small python3 program to run on a little computer (I used a Raspberry Pi 3) attached to a touchscreen to pl...

LinkedIn | Github | Blog | Subscribe Following the success of the {schrute} R package, many requests came in for the same dataset ported over to Python. The schrute and schrutepy packages serve one purpose only: to load the entire transcripts from The Office, so you can perform NLP, text analysis or whatever ...

In our last post on the SKEW index we looked at how good the index was in pricing two standard deviation (2SD) down moves. The answer: not very. But, we conjectured that this poor performance may be due to the fact that it is more accurate at prici...

In our last post on the SKEW index we looked at how good the index was in pricing two standard deviation (2SD) down moves. The answer: not very. But, we conjectured that this poor performance may be due to the fact that it is more accurate at prici...

By Bob Hoyt & Bob Muenchen Data science is being used in many ways to improve healthcare and reduce costs. We have written a textbook, Introduction to Biomedical Data Science, to help healthcare professionals understand the topic and to work … Continue reading →