Topics

• Slow, Inaccurate and Brittle: How I Built The World's Worst Data Pipeline
  By: MK Barton
  Experience Level: Intermediate
  Length: 5 Minutes
  Description:

  "There is nothing so permanent as a temporary solution". Come learn how a combination of misunderstanding, bad assumptions, tech debt and general chaos created the world's worst data pipeline.

  It's slow. It's inaccurate and sadly it lived in production for 3 years. Learn from my mistakes!

• Hack Finance with Wayy Research!
  By: Rick Galbo
  Experience Level: Intermediate
  Length: 20 Minutes
  Description:

  Have you ever wanted to do some financial research, but struggled. Well maybe not, but if you're here with us tonight, maybe check out some packages that Wayy Research has been creating. Even if you're not a seasoned fin-head, you might be wondering how to get started in quantitative finance. And if you were, boy, are you in luck!

   

  We will go over 3 packages:

  Wayy-Research/wrdata - a financial data gathering package

  Wayy-Research/fracTime - a time series forecasting library

  Wayy-Research/wrtrade - a quantitative trading libarary

   

  All of these will allow you to get started with quantitative trading right in the comfort of your own home. This will be a lightning round covering the basics and we will get you from zero - to - hero faster than you can say Benoit Mandelbrot. So bring your thinking caps and lets get ready to do some digging!