Understanding the staggering growth of Anchor, and Mirror This is based on my solution for the “New User Inflow” challenge of Flipside Crypto. I’ve answered it in two sections, where the first is focused on measuring new users for Terra as a whole, and doing the same for both Mirror…

Use fastquant to easily optimize your trading strategy’s parameters automatically! — If you want to consistently earn money with your investments, backtesting is one of the best ways to assess the effectiveness of your trading strategies — of course, assuming that you implement it properly. …

Introducing fastquant, a simple backtesting framework for data driven investors — Ever since I started investing back in college, I was exposed to the different ways of analyzing stocks — technical analysis and fundamental analysis. I’ve even read books and countless articles about these techniques. In a nutshell, technical analysis argues that you can identify the right time to buy and…

Introducing fastquant, a tool for easy access and analysis of Philippine stock data — As a data scientist with a finance background, I’ve always been fascinated with the idea of making money by trading stocks because it seemed simple. Why? You only needed to know two things to make money — to buy at the lows, and to sell at the highs. So, how…

Yes, and he’s almost as funny as me! — Tito Joker is a humorous AI that uses state-of-the-art deep learning to tell jokes. His goal is to understand humor well enough to tell jokes that are actually funny. Why is he named Tito Joker? Because in Filipino, “tito” means “uncle” when translated to English, and in the Philippines, we…

I started when I was in college and still continue up to this day! — My decision to get into data science started way back when I was still in college in early 2015. I actually didn’t plan to become a data scientist originally, but a quant — someone who is essentially a financial analyst that uses advanced math and coding in their functions (e.g…

The theory of ML is hard, the application is even harder! — I’ve spent the last few years applying data science in different aspects of business. Some use cases are internal machine learning (ML) tools, analytics reports, data pipelines, prediction APIs, and more recently, end-to-end ML products. I’ve had my fair share of successful and unsuccessful ML products. There are even reports…

A basic python workflow for predicting the stock price of the Philippine company, Jollibee Food Corp (JFC) — I’ve been into stock trading in the Philippines since I was in college and was immediately convinced that this is a field where forecasting models would be very useful. Why? …