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Canada's Tech Scene needs 'aggressiveness and boldness'(business.financialpost.com)
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by izyda 12y ago
http://www.quantopian.com let's you paper trade using algorithms if that's what you're after
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by izyda 12y ago
This site has a lot of promise: http://www.datatau.com/ Unfortunately, the community is not yet large enough or active enough to have a ton of new posts everyday. That said, there are many quality links
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by izyda 12y ago
do you happen to know where one could find data on this? Not just bookmakers' odds, but volume of bets? This would make for interesting research
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Perhaps the underlying process is just so noisy, better models are not really possible. It would be interesting to see confidence intervals on those predictions - I am relatively confident they would overlap. My intuition tells me that the
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by izyda 12y ago
I think this article hits the nail on the head with the statement "built by statisticians, for statisticians". As a statistics student, I have found the majority of proponents of Python or Julia, as R replacements, are developers
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by izyda 12y ago
You definitely have some good points - I agree on points (i) and (ii) - these are shortfalls of the language and in many cases (especially when building production level code) may be reasons to switch). I disagree with you premise that R is
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by izyda 12y ago
Out of curiosity, why are you so desperate to get away from R? Is it for the speed of a high performance language? As you mention, the vast selection of libraries (and the continual development of these libraries) make even the python modul
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by izyda 13y ago
I know the purpose of this is to just demonstrate/present the code necessary to plot dendrograms but a good complimentary blog post would discuss the useful of actually executing that code: -When for instance is it appropriate to use d
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by izyda 13y ago
It's an interesting concept, thanks for the response. Speaking of parsing, I was made aware of http://www.tagnifi.com/ I think elsewhere in this thread (I have no affiliation with them whatsoever). They appear to parse
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by izyda 13y ago
Interesting points... News articles and blog posts are amplified opinions of a small set of people, they are a poor substitute for direct measurement of many many people. You might be correct (sounds very reasonable) but I guess the quest
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by izyda 13y ago
This looks very cool - I will certainly sign up for the beta. I think there is real potential in this space. The only concern - and maybe you have a solution - I have is that to my knowledge, XBRL has only been required on 10K's and 10
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by izyda 13y ago
How about http://www.quandl.com/ ? They have plenty of financial index data and a decent API.
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I agree that there may be space for vertically integrated presentation/reporting platform, but do you think this space is as lucrative as the actual data streaming? My guess would be that financial services customers would be very pric
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by izyda 13y ago
totally agree - and probably why if all you have is a niche play, even if it has potential to be extremely profitable, attempting to replace the Bloomberg App Store is like trying to replace the Apple app store for one mobile game.
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No, actually, I am referring to real time sentiment analysis of any kind - services such as http://www.dataminr.com/ or http://www.infotrie.com/ do this today mostly using online chatter, which you correctl
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by izyda 13y ago
I think the reason the largest startups focus on institutional investors is because these are by far the largest users of financial data and are willing to pay for it (just look at Bloomberg's subscription fees). With just a few custom
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Great points. I think #2 (reliability) and #3 (reputation)are really key here. I would argue that there is a caveat to #1. Agreed that a MVP for a Bloomberg replacement wouldn't work unless you had everything Bloomberg had and more (in
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As a stats undergrad who's quite interested in this and has an active project going in the space, I think the main question here is what exactly are we trying to predict? Is the sole purpose of analytics to "rate this player relat
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Nice. It would be interesting to see more visualizations or summary statistics that show what type of phrases, topics, or other features of a Kickstarter campaign make it most likely to get funded.