Articles in: October 2012 :
Developing a Portfolio Backtester in R
As part of building our new Tax-Loss Harvesting (TLH) feature, we needed to build a portfolio backtester to simulate portfolio performance over a historical period. R was the obvious choice for its strength in statistics and finance; the R Finance community in particular has created a number of very useful packages, some of which we’ll talk… Read more
Building the Startup Compensation Visualization
We recently published a company blog post titled Manage Your Tech Career that featured a visualization of “Startup Salary & Equity Compensation” across different job functions, levels, company sizes and regions. The post received more traffic than we anticipated, and a lot of people have asked questions about the tool. Here I’d like to tell… Read more