Kx celebrates 25 years of kdb

Note: You can now subscribe to my blog updates here to receive latest updates. Last Friday, on May 18th, Kx celebrated 25 years of kdb with a full day conference at New York Academy of Sciences in downtown Manhattan, NY. You can find the agenda here. In the last year or so, kdb+ has become increasingly ‘open’ …

My (awesome) experience at PyCon 2018 in Cleveland!

It’s been almost 3 years that I have been programming in Python. I picked up Python as a useful tool to solve some critical problems at work and quickly started appreciating all that it had to offer. I used different mediums to learn python. I sought guidance from other senior python developers. I read blog …

My experience at the QuantCon 2016

Most of you have probably heard of a startup called Quantopian which was launched in 2011. Quantopian is a crowd-sourced hedge fund that allows its users to develop and back-test strategies using its platform. Last year, Quantopian started an annual conference for quants called QuantCon. It has been gaining a lot of popularity in the quant …

Using kdb+ for big data analytics in pharmaceutical industry

I attended Kx’s latest meetup in New York this Monday at J.P. Morgan. This meetup was different. It was focused on using kdb+ for data analysis in pharmaceutical industry. I have barely any knowledge about how pharma companies work and what type/size of data they deal with. This meetup was an incredible introduction to growing …

My experience at The Trading Show – quant, automated trading and big data conference

I was lucky enough to get a complimentary pass to The Trading Show from one of our vendors – OneMarketData. They were one of the sponsors and had some spare tickets. The Trading Show is a conference on “quant, automated trading, big data and high performance computing (HPC)”. I have never attended a conference at …