Shane

New York, NY

statalgo.com

Age: 33

Quantitative researcher focusing on statistics and machine learning methods in finance.

Twitter: @statalgo
Blog: http://www.statalgo.com

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Major unsolved problems in theoretical computer science?

big-list open-problem asked Aug 17 '10 at 17:16

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67 votes

The Two Cultures: statistics vs. machine learning?

machine-learning asked Jul 19 '10 at 19:14

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66 votes

What is your favorite “data analysis” cartoon?

humor asked Jul 21 '10 at 15:13

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36 votes

Painless way to install a new version of R (on Windows)?

windows r upgrade packages asked Sep 9 '09 at 20:29

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35 votes

What is the theoretical basis of imperative programming?

imperative-programming pl.programming-languages asked Aug 16 '10 at 20:21

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32 votes

What is the best introductory Bayesian statistics textbook?

bayesian books asked Jul 19 '10 at 21:18

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26 votes

Are there any good Clojure benchmarks?

java scala functional-programming clojure performance asked Feb 2 '10 at 18:50

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23 votes

What are the key risks to the quantitative strategy development process?

backtesting risk-management asked Feb 3 '11 at 16:28

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23 votes

What programming languages are most commonly used in quantitative finance?

programming asked Feb 8 '11 at 21:10

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22 votes

Using lambda calculus to derive time complexity?

lambda-calculus pl.programming-languages time-complexity asked Aug 21 '10 at 21:32

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What can MATLAB do that R cannot do?

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What is your favorite R debugging trick?

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Is R's apply family more than syntactic sugar

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Most underused data visualization

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What is your favorite “data analysis” cartoon?

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How can I go about applying machine learning algorithms to stock markets?

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Plotting a 3d surface plot with contour map overlay, using R

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Datasets for Running Statistical Analysis on

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What concepts are the most dangerous ones in quantitative finance work?

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Innovative ways of visualizing financial data

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What technical skills needed for algorithmic trading, HFT, etc?

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How to Correctly Use Lists in R?

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How can I learn to create beautiful infographics (with connection to my R knowledge)?

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What is your favorite “data analysis” cartoon?

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Good GUI for R suitable for a beginner wanting to learn programming in R?

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Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing

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Multivariate time series modelling in R

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Organizing R Source Code

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What R packages do you find most useful in your daily work?

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What is the best introductory Bayesian statistics textbook?

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What is the intuition behind cointegration?

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Merge several data.frames into one data.frame with a loop

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What's the biggest R-gotcha you've run across?

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Locating freely available data samples

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How to learn R as a programming language?

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Any research on how natural language processing can be used to forecast stocks?

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Getting R plots into LaTeX?

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