June 2015

Modeling Interest Rates Meucci Style

June 24, 2015 | Peter Chan

I have signed up for Attilio Meucci’s ARPM Bootcamp next month (July 13-18) in NYC http://www.symmys.com/arpm-bootcamp, and need to do quite a bit of prep as it’s going to be a deep-dive…The Advanced Risk and Portfolio Management Bootcamp provides in-depth understanding of buy-side ... [Read more...]

Presentations in (R)markdown

June 24, 2015 | January

There are many ways to turn a markdown or Rmarkdown document into a presentation. Way too many, and none of them is perfect. I made my first presentation with knitr / Rmarkdown for the tmod package. After trying various options in knitr, I decided on an approach in which the Rmarkdown ...
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Network analysis with igraph

June 23, 2015 | Daniel Marcelino

Suddenly, I had to learn network analysis. Two weeks ago I started with a book by Christakis and Fowler, then a book by Kolaczyk and Csárdi, now here I am in a “how to” analyse network data using R moment. This is much like learning-by-doing knowledge, so may be ... [Read more...]

URL Originality Analysis

June 23, 2015 | Mango Solutions

By Chris Campbell, Senior Consultant. When I first heard about Twitter, it was described to me as love, life and the story of the world, summarized in 140 characters or less. Each snippet of information is like a beautiful haiku, … Continue reading → [Read more...]

Illustrated Guide to ROC and AUC

June 23, 2015 | Raffael Vogler

(In a past job interview I failed at explaining how to calculate and interprete ROC curves – so here goes my attempt to fill this knowledge gap.) Think of a regression model mapping a number of features onto a real number … Continue reading → [Read more...]

arXiv frenzy

June 23, 2015 | xi'an

In the few past days, there has been so many arXiv postings of interest—presumably the NIPS submission effect!—that I cannot hope to cover them in the coming weeks! Hopefully, some will still come out on the ‘Og in a near future: arXiv:1506.06629: Scalable Approximations of Marginal Posteriors in ... [Read more...]

The 2D-Harmonograph In Shiny

June 23, 2015 | aschinchon

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe (Carl Sagan) I like Shiny and I can’t stop converting into apps some of my previous experiments: today is the turn of the harmonograph. This is a simple application since you only can ...
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Sales Funnel visualization with R

June 23, 2015 | Analyze Core » R language

Sales (purchasing or conversion) Funnel is a consumer-focused marketing model which illustrates the theoretical customer journey towards the purchase of a product or service. Classically, the Sales funnel includes at least four steps: Awareness – the customer becomes aware of the existence of a product or service, Interest – actively expressing an ...
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