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Excel by FinancialRadDeveloperApr 2, 20208:25 pm
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CALCULATE PI USING MONTECARLO SIMULATION Phase IV – Excel VBA & Python via PYXLL


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, […]

python by FinancialRadDeveloperMar 24, 202011:45 pmMarch 24, 2020
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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 […]

python by FinancialRadDeveloperMar 22, 202010:05 pmMarch 22, 2020
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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 […]

python by FinancialRadDeveloperMar 19, 202010:10 pmMarch 22, 2020
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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 […]

python by FinancialRadDeveloperSep 17, 20199:17 amOctober 24, 2019

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 […]

Uncategorized by FinancialRadDeveloperSep 1, 201910:43 pm

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.   […]

Uncategorized by FinancialRadDeveloperOct 24, 20194:08 pmOctober 24, 2019

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. […]

Uncategorized by FinancialRadDeveloperSep 16, 201910:22 pmSeptember 16, 2019

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 […]

IR35 by FinancialRadDeveloperSep 11, 201911:08 pmMarch 22, 2020

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:[…]

Uncategorized by FinancialRadDeveloperJun 6, 20111:17 pm

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 […]

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