An important part of every data science professional’s growth journey is evolving from data preparation and model training to owning the entire machine learning development cycle. The full cycle includes data ingestion, data cleaning and preparation, feature engineering, model training, model evaluation, model deployment, model serving, and model maintenance....

The bifurcation of markets into two extremes seems to be a common theme across many applications. Whether it is the right vs. left in journalism, the demand for data scientists, or the divide between discount vs. luxury retail; the stable state often settles at the extremes. When it comes...

Memes are the most efficient messenger in society today. Is there any other vehicle that can carry a powerful statement across the world as quickly and efficiently as a good meme? This thought process was the inspiration for my group’s entry into OpenAI’s recent Climate Hackathon: The Climate Change...

As a data scientist, I find it hard to believe that anyone would trust their financial portfolio to an advisor who doesn’t understand the basics of statistics and probability. Yet, how many investors do you know who blindly trust their advisor or financial planner? How many of those advisors...

Whether it is Alexa answering a question or Elon preaching self-driving cars, business leaders see exciting machine learning use cases everywhere they look. The hype around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is staggering. So much of the mainstream discussion centers around these exciting applications, but they often...

Every week there is more fear mongering from the media about inflation, rising interest rates, and an impending recession; however, there is one silver lining from this situation: U.S. fixed income is worth buying again. This means that you can finally get a reasonable, nominal return on U.S. Treasury...

In the finance world you often hear that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. No matter how frequently you remind yourself of this principle, occasionally you will delude yourself into believing you found a great opportunity. This situation presented itself to me a few years back when...

During the final semester of my grad school analytics program, I was tasked with estimating price elasticity for wine. At first glance, this seemed like a simple objective. In economics, I was taught that price elasticity is the percent change in demand given the percent change in price (i.e....

With sky high real estate prices, it seems hopeless trying to purchase your first home. While buying a home might be unattainable for some, there are new ways to own a slice of private real estate. Fundrise, a real estate investing platform founded in 2010, offers you the opportunity...

The exchange traded fund, or ETF, has become such as successful vehicle for investing that there is likely one for any situation you can dream of. From countries with economic freedom (FRDM) to the metaverse (META), you might be paralyzed by the abundance of choices. How can you make...