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DataDrivenInvestor

Rapid Prototyping for Quantitative Investing with d6tflow

Quant investing research involves complex data dependencies and optimizing strategy parameters. d6tflow makes it easy to manage this…

6 min readOct 24, 2020

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Rapid Prototyping for Quantitative Investing with d6tflow

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DataSeries

Pyspark quickstart for pandas users

The fastest way to get up and running with pyspark!

2 min readOct 19, 2020

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Pyspark quickstart for pandas users

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Towards Data Science

AutoML Faceoff: 15 Humans VS 2 Machines. Who won?

15 students worked on 8 datasets, trying to beat the performance of 2 leading data science platforms. Find out who won!

6 min readJul 31, 2020

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AutoML Faceoff: 15 Humans VS 2 Machines. Who won?

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Norm Niemer

Fuzzy joins in python with d6tjoin

Combining different data sources is a time suck!

5 min readJul 10, 2020

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Towards Data Science

Explaining “Blackbox” ML Models — Practical Application of SHAP

Train a “blackbox” GBM model on a real dataset and make it explainable with SHAP.

5 min readApr 27, 2020

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Explaining “Blackbox” ML Models — Practical Application of SHAP

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Towards Data Science

Can we trust AutoML to go on full autopilot?

Why you still need expert data scientists even with AutoML — a real-life case study

7 min readAug 15, 2019

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Can we trust AutoML to go on full autopilot?

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Towards Data Science

How to use airflow-style DAGs for highly effective data science workflows

Airflow and Luigi are great for data engineering but not optimized for data science. d6tflow brings airflow-style DAGs to data science.

4 min readJul 24, 2019

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How to use airflow-style DAGs for highly effective data science workflows

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Towards Data Science

Top 10 Statistics Mistakes Made by Data Scientists

Avoid those mistakes, some of which could derail your career. Especially useful for data science coders without a statistics background

7 min readJun 17, 2019

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Top 10 Statistics Mistakes Made by Data Scientists

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Towards Data Science

Top 10 Coding Mistakes Made by Data Scientists

A data scientist is “ … better at software engineering than any statistician”. Learn common coding mistakes to avoid

5 min readApr 20, 2019

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Top 10 Coding Mistakes Made by Data Scientists

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Towards Data Science

4 Reasons Why Your Machine Learning Code is Probably Bad

Your current ML workflow probably chains together several functions executed linearly. Instead of linearly chaining functions, data…

3 min readMar 27, 2019

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4 Reasons Why Your Machine Learning Code is Probably Bad

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Norm Niemer

Norm Niemer

Chief Data Scientist at multi-billion asset manager. Top 1% on Stackoverflow. Won high profile hackathons. MS Financial Engineering from Columbia University

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