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Re:Fitting to Noise or Nothing at All: Machine Learning in M... by RealAnalysis on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:03AM (#14947980)
also, is this high-signal data publicly available? or only for purchases from vendors?
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Re:Fitting to Noise or Nothing at All: Machine Learning in M... by dsacco on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:16AM (#14948103)
It's public (technically it has to be in order to be strictly legal for use). But for the most part it is unintuitive, unclean (needs to be heavily normalized) and not easily accessible. There are a variety of vendors that source it, clean it and analyze it to make it salable to firms. Quantitative firms also have teams devoted to doing all of that internally.
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Re:Fitting to Noise or Nothing at All: Machine Learning in M... by RealAnalysis on Monday August 07, 2017 @11:46AM (#14948364)
how does one go about getting a quant position? (PhD, bachelors, masters?) I feel like there's a bias towards PhDs...
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