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Value at Risk (VaR) to Determine Emergency Fund Size
The idea here is that by doing good bookkeeping you have good data that you can use to analyze your financial life. Specifically, we look at how big your emergency fund ought to be.
Why I’m Not Going To Take the Corona Virus Vaccine And You Shouldn’t Either!
As it is still 2020, and the COVID-19 Pandemic is still raging as I type this I wanted to write an article, there is much talk about looking for a vaccine. Let me put my click-baity title to rest right […]
Double-Entry Accrual Accounting for Personal Finance
So I started to put together my family’s finances recently. I thought about using some fintech solution. Ultimately, in my data nerdliness, I landed on using double-entry accrual accounting principles to look at my finances through. At first, I thought […]
The 7 Most Common Discrete Probability Distributions
Anyone who has taken a slightly rigorous statistics class will have bumped into these probability distributions before. What I want to focus on is giving an overview of each of these probability distributions, when they are useful, and what you […]
4 Data Strategies for Companies in a Post-Covid World
Covid-19 has really shaped our world in ways that I wouldn’t have expected just 6 months ago, which feels like a lifetime ago. I personally have been hiding out my garage for the past few months. Time seems to have […]
3 Changes due to Corona Virus For Data Professionals
I love being a data professional. I mean, my job is to literally look at the data and figure stuff out. I’m supposed to come up with cool insights. I also get to tell the story of how a business […]
Data Science and Weight Loss
I’m actually really excited to talk about this . It has been in the works for awhile now. Weekends and evenings of non-stop hacking with a two week push to get this out the door. It feels like it has […]
Causality, a Brief Note
This post is all about causality. In data science we are often concerned with simple correlations. As someone trained in econometrics, as any one can tell you, the key thing that you should be concerned with is causality. We are […]
Solving Stochastic Differential Equations in Python
As you may know from last week I have been thinking about stochastic differential equations (SDEs) recently. As such, one of the things that I wanted to do was to build some solvers for SDEs. One good reason for solving […]
Stochastic Differential Equations and Econometrics
Recently, I’ve been reading up on stochastic differential equations. I’ve had some ideas on some projects at my day job, and quickly realized that I would need to write down some evolving processes that were inherently stochastic, thus why I’ve […]