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Week 12 Monday

2/16/15 Today I learned how to plot a portfolio optimization graph where the axes were transformed to create a positive correlation. This is a func...

Semester 2 Summary

This semester I started to try and make a portfolio risk management application in the same manner as the natural language application I did last sem...

Week 10 Wednesday

2/4/15 I spent the class studying the efficient frontier (from the modern portfolio theory). The theory was created by Harry Markowitz in the 1950'...

Week 10 Friday

2/6/15 Today I continued my studies into different financial work in R. Today's topic was dollar neutral portfolios.

Week 12 Friday

2/20/15 Today I learned about the different weighting (equal vs market) systems used for measuring return rates. I also looked at the weights effec...

Week 11 Wednesday

2/11/15 Today I looked at hedge fund portfolio optimization and statistical arbitrage. This is compared to the stock market movement to see the eff...

Week 11 Monday

9/2/15 Today I studied the return distributions of the set of stocks I used in the last class. I have also decided what I want to do with my financ...

Week 9: Capstone Project

10/27/14 Today is the start of the Capstone Project. The objective is to make a comprehensive analysis using prediction models on natural language ...

Arduino Log 9: Touch Sensor

Introduction I wanted to do this touch sensor because of the abundance of touch screens in everyday life nowadays. Capacitive touch sensors are pract...

Week 14 Wednesday

12/3/14 Today I worked a little on my shiny app that is due next week. I completed half of the server.R file and started on the ui.R file. I also...

Week 17 Monday

1/12/14 Today I was updating my personal website on my project as well as adding a few more slides to the presentation.

Week 17 Wednesday

1/14/15 Today I updated my website's courses pages (i have finished my capstone project page) for the presentation. I will be using this as my prim...

Financial Econometrics & Computational Finance

8/27/14 This morning I received an email from DataCamp informing me about a financial econometrics course that was recommended to me. This course w...

Week 3 Summary

9/21/14 This week I went through the course material quickly to make time for the course projects. This is because the projects count for 40% of th...

Week 5 Wednesday

10/1/14 Today I spent the class updating my personal site (which I will be using for college applications) with information about the Data Science ...

Week 6 Friday

10/10/14 Today I finished watching the previous lecture and almost finished lecture 4 on error an noise. This lecture was pretty easy to follow and...

Week 22 Wednesday

5/13/15 I was absent due to the AP English Language & Composition and AP Statistics exams.

Week 22 Monday

5/11/15 I was absent due to the AP Biology and AP Physics C exams.

Week 21 Summary

This week, I spent my time running example programs and trying to adapt them to learn how I could use it in a single program. The examples I found th...

Week 21 Friday

5/8/15 I recreated a simple stock ticker app with the quant mod package that pulls information from yahoo's databases and rearranges the axes toy o...