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R for Finance Workshop
2013 March 5-6 in London.
The target audience are professionals and academics, who wish to learn the basics of the statistical software R and its use in Finance.
The workshop is led by Ron Hochreiter, Pat Burns and Michael Sun.
Details are on the Unicom website. Please reference Burns Statistics when you register.
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Thalesians (New York)
2013 February 12 (real soon now). Alexander Eydeland on “Models in Commodity Markets”.
Details on the Thalesian website.
14-10 Club
2013 February 20.
Moorad Choudhry on “Derivatives and FVA”. John Wheater & Jo Dunkley on “Gravity from Stochastics to Cosmology”
Details at the 14-10 website.
Understanding R
2013 March 4 in London. A free one-day event.
Understanding R is a workshop aimed at IT professionals or Business Managers who are unfamiliar with this open source programming language or who have had no previous experience of managing the usage of R within a commercial
environment. The aim of the workshop is to showcase the capabilities of R whilst at the same time providing advice on the secure installation, management, security, support and best practices relating to R usage and implementation.
Understanding R is free to attend, but spaces are limited. Those wishing to register for the workshop should please email: training@mango-solutions.com
14-10 Club
2013 March 7.
George Magnus on “The Great Re-convergence”. Marco Dion on “How to use Language Recognition Algorithms to analyse news flow and improve systematic trading strategies”.
Details at the 14-10 website.
LondonR
2012 March 19.
New venue: Balls Brothers, Minster Pavement, Mincing Lane, London EC3R 7PP (note: meeting room is downstairs on the left as you enter the venue)
5-6pm: Pre Meeting Workshop*: “Report Generation in R” – Gemma Stephenson, Mango Solutions
6 pm: Main LondonR meeting (presentations begin at 6.30pm)
- Open Data comes to the NHS – Francine Bennett, Mastodon C
- High-throughput/flow Cytometry Data and how to Load, Transform and Visualise Data and Gate Populations – Ulrike Naumann
- Enterprise grade R on Spotfire – David Rice, Agilexi
Details and (free) registration at http://www.londonr.org/
14-10 Club
2013 April 17.
Julian Baggini on “Why Science Can Never Kill Philosophy”. Paul Craven on “Behavioural Finance: from biases to bubbles”.
Details at the 14-10 website.
14-10 Club
2013 May 9.
Brian Foster on “Partical physics”. Yasmine Hayek Kobiessi on “Multifractal-Financial-Markets-Alternative”.
Details at the 14-10 website.
Forecasting Financial Markets
2013 May 29-31 in Hanover, Germany.
Details on the conference website.
14-10 Club
2013 June 13.
Greg Davies on “Behavioural and Quantitative Finance”. Alexis Kirke presumably saying something about computer music.
Details at the 14-10 website.
Previously Announced
PMAR North America
Performance Measurement, Attribution and Risk.
2013 May 16-17, Philadelphia.
Details at the Spaulding Group.
R/Finance
2013 May 17-18 in Chicago (of course).
See the conference website.
PMAR Europe
Performance Measurement, Attribution and Risk.
2013 June 11-12, London.
Details at the Spaulding Group.
useR! 2013
2013 July 10-12, La Mancha.
The conference website is http://www3.uclm.es/congresos/useR-2013/
Follow on twitter: @useR_2013
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