Blog: August 2012

CFNAI the most underrated indicator according to ishares

published by adam on Tue, 08/28/2012 - 01:38

According to the ishares blog, the Chicago Fed National Activity Index (CFNAI) was recently named the most underrated index for measuring the US economy's health.  I wholeheartedly agree.  I co-ran this beauty when I worked at the Fed in 2008-2009 and automated its graphing in Matlab.  If you look back in the archives from around then, you'll see...

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Complex causality for 37signals NYT opinion; or Tigers

published by adam on Thu, 08/23/2012 - 14:29

I really liked this story on the 37signals blog yesterday where Jason Fried explained the process of seemingly serendipitous events that led to his being asked to write an opinion piece in the New York Times.  I've been working with network visualization lately and turned his story into the graphic below, which they've kindly posted back to the 37 signals blog. 

Image Showing how to get into the New York Times

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Opening for Clients; Hire me

published by adam on Sun, 08/12/2012 - 15:33

I have an opening to take on more hours of client work beginning in mid-September.  Please feel free to contact me if you're looking for support in forecasting, automation, quantitative design, social network analysis---or anything I've written about here.

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