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A Data Scientist Explains: When Does Machine Learning Work Well in Financial Markets?

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establishing an appropriate price illiquid securities, predicting where liquidity will be located, and determining appropriate hedge ratios) as well as more generally: the existence of good historical trade data on the assets to be priced (e.g., An absence of predictors: in general, data on past behavior of the variable being predicted (e.g.,

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On the Hunt for Patterns: from Hippocrates to Supercomputers

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Ever since Hippocrates founded his school of medicine in ancient Greece some 2,500 years ago, writes Hannah Fry in her book Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms , what has been fundamental to healthcare (as she calls it “the fight to keep us healthy”) was observation, experimentation and the analysis of data.

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Learn Data Visualization Techniques for Impactful Visual Representations

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Data visualization sample by FineReport Book A Demo Learn Data Visualization Techniques Bar Chart Design Principles When it comes to data visualization , bar charts are a fundamental tool for representing data in a clear and concise manner.