Introduction Everywhere I have ever worked (I am mainly talking about the standard sell side Wholesale / Investment banks) use Excel & VBA for their prototypes and any desk based development. While lots of time, […]
CALCULATE PI USING MONTECARLO SIMULATION – PHASE III – aka "Multicarlo"
Introduction After Phase II, we discovered that Numpy wasn’t going to help. Also, getting a half way decent approximation of Pi was going to take millions of paths / attempts. So on a slimmed down […]
CALCULATE PI USING MONTECARLO SIMULATION – PHASE II
Context Carrying on from Phase I, I wanted to see how I could take the initial answer and make it more efficient. The first port of call then is… how expensive is it at the […]
Calculate Pi using MonteCarlo Simulation – Phase I
Context I was interviewing for a Python developer role in an Investment bank, and a nice enough but over zealous quant started asking me silly questions. You know the sort. However in this case I […]
Google Music Takeout – Track Data
I always find working through a text book that it gets quite dry, and I struggle to maintain interest as the project or subject matter is too esoteric. So, armed with a little python, StackOverflow […]
Initial foray into Data Science with Python
Professionally I have undertaken a major segue into Python from the usual Excel VBA development environment. However this has remained very tightly linked to the quant library and specific business requirement solving as before. […]
Google Takeout – Music Activity Data
After looking through the Takeout data for the tracks I have listened to I cannot see any sort of unique ref for track, artist or album. There isn’t any id on the .csv file itself. […]
Foray Into Data Science – Part II
As mentioned in my earlier article, I am starting to get into Data Science. I might be quite late to the party in some respects but better late then never I guess. https://financialraddeveloper.com/2019/09/01/initial-foray-into-data-science-with-python/ Building from […]
The Death of IT Contracting? – IR35 6th April 2020 – Off Payroll Rules impact
Private sector IR35 Off-payroll working rules are coming, the best way to be informed is straight from the horses mouth:[…]
Quick Transposer
A post from a Pistonhead member in need : Hopefully someone can help! I have a list of approx 50000 numbers in ‘Column A’ of spreadsheet. I need to split this list into batches of […]
