What do you do at Design and Analytics?
Design and Analytics makes broken things work, puzzling things intelligible, slow things fast, and ugly things beautiful---with applications in time series finance, geographic information systems, and social network analysis.
published by adam on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 13:44
Gather 'round, R-users, forecasters, algo traders, and financial analysts. The R in Finance conference is this Friday and Saturday, May 11 & 12, in Chicago. All your favorite buzzwords, from algo trading, to data scientist, to big data, will be there---with talks given by the top experts in the R landscape. Jeff Ryan's pre-conference session on processing full-market data looks particularly solid.
published by adam on Sun, 05/06/2012 - 00:00
This is a project I'm pleased to have worked on with the Loft Finance team: http://europecrowdfunding.org/ The European Crowdfunding Network launched last week. Its mission is to provide the groundwork for founding a European-wide Crowdfunding Association for funding startups and small businesses---using the power of P2P to get new ventures up and running.
The fish-tank below showcases design aesthetics and mathematical modeling working together. Refresh the page to see it randomize differently, or go here for an in-depth explanation of the model, and how it relates to both art and finance.