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R/Finance 2011

4 messages · avneet singh, Thomas Laugle, Brian G. Peterson +1 more

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Are there any videos of talks available ?

Thanks
Avneet

-----Original Message-----
From: BBands
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 11:03 AM
To: R-sig-finance
Subject: [R-SIG-Finance] R/Finance 2011

Wow! Great conference. Superb in every way. Congrats to the committee!

Some of the highlights for me were:

Meeting Stephano Iacus and learning of his MOdist function for cluster analysis.

Meeting Louis Kates and listening to his talk on prototype programming.

Meeting Paul Teetor, author to"R Cookbook" and listening to his talk
on better hedge ratios.

Meeting Bryan Lewis who shares a passion for pu-erh, a kind of Chinese tea.

A long conversation I had with a New York spread trader who had some
interesting ideas about the math of Bollinger Bands.

Meeting Doug Martin, founder of S-Plus and now an R convert!

Long evenings at Haymarket and Jacks chatting with a wide range of people.

In short, this was a well organized conference that was everything an
R/Finance conference ought to be. I'd like to thank Dirk Eddelbuettel
for introducing me to the group, Jeff Ryan for being relentless in
convincing me to attend and Ralph Vince for convincing me that Jeff
was right.

See you next year,

    John
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On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Brian G. Peterson <brian at braverock.com> wrote:
Notice that most of John's "highlights" were related to interacting
with people at the conference.  While the presentations are great,
there is a ton of value from talking with other attendees and that
cannot be captured via video.
Also, we will notify the list when the slides are on the website.
Also, there is a LinkedIn group specifically for the R/Finance 2011
conference.  Hopefully the group will help attendees stay in touch and
discuss the presentations, while giving those who have not attended an
idea of what the conference is like.  You can find the group here:
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=&gid=3866213

Best,
--
Joshua Ulrich  |  FOSS Trading: www.fosstrading.com