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Maybe while they are at it they can make some additional $$ improving NYC MTAs sensor network so MTA can know where the trains are!

Context: I am a data analyst who previously was an auditor. JIRA was a game changer for me and I would have loved to have used it during my Audit career. As such, I want an Issue T…

Some finance books I love (and reread frequently). These books are more about characters and stories, more than traditional non-fiction. My Life as a Quant by Emanuel Derman The Qu…

Could you share the moment or set of experiences that pushed you over the edge and made you want to commit heavily to free software?

> "not the need to find my place in life at this stage," I appreciated this perspective. My primary motivation for pursuing deep work is due to an insecurity with my current abilit…

I like to think of myself as having "alternative" priorities :) Thanks a bunch!

I think a key factor in this decision may be the perceived risk of putting huge capital behind a single black box model. I would assume this differs from more ML-heavy quant firms …

Business Intelligence Roadmap by Moss and Atre

Some crazy stat exists related to this. Something like Apple making less than 15% of global units while reaping some 80% of the global profits related to said units. In this case, …

Software engineering (not as a job) for data analytics and data science that help me automate information consumption.

A clock face is a timeless UI

My friends think its passion, but really I just forced the medicine down until it became habit, then a permanent fixture, and now is familiar and relaxing. I love learning new thin…

They aren't all self help. Some just shook my world view so much that I couldn't help but introspect, reviewing everything I believe from a new angle. I find the experience I had w…

I would like to give my 2 cents on where I see any opportunity! A newer quant will be incentivized to create an equity strategy because the data is available and the markets are li…

An omnipresent underlying sense of anxiety and rage caused by something or other in my past that is useful for work but not useful for building relationships!

I heard an iOS developer make a comment once saying that deciding to develop for iOS means less folks may have access (under the assumption that Android is more common) but you are…

Folks hate on Upwork.com but I have used it to secure and build good long-term relationships. Once the relationships grew we could take it offline to a more formal relationship. Be…

A semester during my undergraduate degree, my registrar account was allowed to sign up for a class after I made a case they should waive the pre-requisite for me. During my sign-up…

The big pieces that have helped me understand and grow with tf: I began learning a lot about the workflow through cookbooks with dialogue on why specific practices are used. My fav…

Like Midas, it is the dream of all green auditors until they find it and realize the downsides.

I applied it to a sizable chunk of company expense data when auditing accounts payable. It highlighted some managers who made consistent purchases from the same vendor, not the mul…