Monday, August 5, 2013

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Blog Post: TheFinancialServicesClub: Things worth reading: 5th August 2013

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 11:00 PM PDT

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Blog Post: Falkenblog: On the Inverse Correlation between Expected Risk and Return

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 10:56 PM PDT

Imagine a world where expected returns are solely a function of covariances as standard theory implies. Then for assets with specific covariances, the market should give them specific expected returns. People should expect risk and return to be positively correlated.Instead, Sharpe and Amromin find that people expect volatility and returns to be inversely correlated: when they are bullish they...

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Published / Preprint: Detecting spatial homogeneity in the world trade web with Detrended Fluctuation Analysis. (arXiv:1308.0526v1 [physics.data-an])

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 05:37 PM PDT

In a spatially embedded network, that is a network where nodes can be uniquely determined in a system of coordinates, links' weights might be affected by metric distances coupling every pair of nodes (dyads). In order to assess to what extent metric distances affect relationships (link's weights) in a spatially embedded network, we propose a methodology based on DFA (Detrended Fluctuation...

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Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Big Data and Advertising: In the trenches

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 10:26 AM PDT

[A version of this post appears on the O'Reilly Strata blog.]The $35B merger of Omnicom and Publicis put the convergence of Big Data and Advertising1 in the front pages of business publications. Adtech2 companies have long been at the forefront of many data technologies, strategies, and techniques. By now it's well-known that many impressive large scale, realtime analytics systems in production,...

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Blog Post: TheAlephBlog: Advice to Two Readers

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 03:10 AM PDT

I get a lot of requests for advice.  Here are two of them.read more...

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