Prologue

Good Morning! How are you doing? It’s been great being part of the Analytical Community the last few years hasn’t it? The excitement is everywhere about “big-data”,“data-science”,“MOOCs”. I have been blown away by the talent being attracted into Analytics.One current trend is ‘a shift from a desire to work for bigger name brand companies like Facebook or Google, to more mission-driven organizations attempting to make an impact on society. Whether it is curing cancer, conserving energy, tracking infectious disease or personalizing education, more data scientists are becoming interested in trying to make the world a better place’ (kdnuggets 2017).

My name is Edward Anderson and I like to play with financial models. For me it’s all about big ideas and models are a way to bring these ideas to life……

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