Published inGeek Culture·PinnedMember-onlyBeating the Market with a Momentum Trading Strategy using Python: How You Can TooLast month I wrote about automating gathering financial data with Python, today I am going to walk through creating a momentum trading strategy using financial data scraped from Yahoo Finance. The goal of a momentum trading strategy is to capitalize on run-ups and minimize downside risk by exiting the position…Algorithms9 min readAlgorithms9 min read
Published inGeek Culture·Jan 17Member-onlyHow I passed the Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate Exam: Resources, Tips and Lessons LearnedI recently passed the Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate Exam and I hope that my insight can be useful to others wanting to build their data engineering credibility. What is Databricks? Databricks is a powerful platform for data engineering, machine learning, and analytics. It is used to process, store, clean, share, analyze, model…Databricks3 min readDatabricks3 min read
Published inGeek Culture·Nov 29, 2021Member-onlyThe Fastest way to load Files into AWS S3 Buckets: A Guide to Using Amazon Command Line InterfaceIf you have ever worked with a large amount of data, there is a high probability you have used AWS in some capacity. Due to its high durability and availability, it is no wonder that over 32% of the world’s public cloud share is hosted by its infrastructure. AWS S3…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published inGeek Culture·Oct 4, 202110 DataFrame Methods You Need to Know for Data ScienceManipulating a Pandas DataFrame is the cornerstone of many data projects. I have provided the 10 most important DataFrame methods and functions that you need to know. Follow along as I explain them and prepare an NFL dataset for a sport betting model! The fundamentals of any project involving large…Data Science6 min readData Science6 min read
Published inGeek Culture·Jul 15, 2021Ten Timeless Investing Lessons from the “Traders Playbook” and the Original Wolf of Wall Street’s StoryFrom the book: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre Jesse Livermore was the original Wolf of Wall Street. He started out hustling local bucket shops and eventually cornered the cotton market and orchestrated major market manipulation. He made millions and went broke 3 times over. Reminiscences of a…Investing5 min readInvesting5 min read
Published inAnalytics Vidhya·Feb 3, 2021Scraping Financial data with simple pythonAll of my life I have been fascinated with the stock market. From the extensive financial analysis to the debauchery in the of the Wolf of Wall Street, I have been hooked. Coding and data science on the other hand, are not depicted as glamorously. However, as I began to…Python6 min readPython6 min read
