I’m excited to share that I’ll be presenting to the MS Excel Toronto meetup on Weds 12/8 at 5p Eastern. The topic is “What Excel Users Should Know about Python.” This is a free online event. Register now for this free online event. I’ve presented to this meetup ...

Handling frequency in machine learning One of the trickiest situations in machine learning is when you have to deal with datasets coming from different time scales. Frequency in machine learning is for example, that you are handling financial data, and some of the data comes at a monthly frequency (e....

Kick-start your journey into data analytics; read the book later About this event Free signed copy of Advancing into Analytics Workshop recording Demo notes and handouts If you’re an analyst or researcher looking to level up your data analysis skills, this is the workshop and book for you. After ...

Hyperparameter tuning and interpretation of LSBoost output.

"R Python" continued... Random forests with monotonic constraints

We’re taking a short break from neural networks to return to portfolio optimization. Our last posts in the portfolio series discussed risk-constrained optimization. Before that we examined satisificing vs. mean-variance optimization (MVO). In our last post on that topic, we simulated 1,000 60-month (5-year) return series using the 1987-1991 period ...

This blog post was written by our intern Osheen Macoscar. 2020 is a year most of us would like to leave behind. But not all change is bad, and many interesting developments, especially in educatio...

Cold water cascades over the rocks in Erwin, Tennessee. Friends, this is going to be an epic post! Today, we bring together all the ideas we’ve built up over the past few posts to nail down our understanding of the key ideas in Jerome Friedma...