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Using Cumulative Sums to Analyze Financial Data

December 21, 2010

The goal of modeling is to be able to describe and predict the behavior of a system. When modeling systems where the general form of the model is unknown, one must usually begin by looking at data to get a sense for the relationship between model performance and potentially explanatory variables. Analyzing financial data is… Read more

Agile, test-driven development in… MATLAB?

September 23, 2010

I recently decided to take a leave of absence from kaChing to work with the Covert Systems Biology Lab at Stanford on building the world’s first “whole-cell” computational model. The team (size: 3) is extremely talented and packed with domain knowledge and experience, but they’ve never worked on a piece of software this large before. When I accepted the… Read more