Category: Data

A few ideas from natural language processing

We’re all smarter than computers! One area where we have a particular advantage is understanding human language. For computers, human language is, perhaps (excuse the pun) somewhat inhumane. After all, computers like numbers. Humans (well, some of us) also like numbers, but to communicate, unsurprisingly, we stick to using human language. It’s sheer ambiguity is…

Storing time series data

As regular readers of my posts may have realised, I kind of like burgers. It’s a simple meal, but somehow very satisfying. There’s obviously vast differences between the burgers on sale, in terms of quality. It isn’t necessarily the case that the most expensive burger will be best. In practice, excessively expensive burgers, end up…

Point-in-time for your data

The one thing we really want to know when making trading decisions, is the future! Alas, we don’t have that information! All we do have is information up until the point we actually want to trade, and have to somehow use that to make a prediction about the future price. Ok, this is blatantly obvious…