Informal Quantopian Jam Session in Halifax

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Informal Quantopian Jam Session in Halifax

posted May 3, 2017

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Anyone in Halifax is welcome to join an informal Quantopian "jam session" at 7:00 this evening (Wednesday, May 3) at QRA Corp, in our new location at 6080 Young Street, Suite 101, in Halifax, NS.

QRA is a software company specializing in testing and requirements for safety-critical systems. Our technical team members have diverse backgrounds in computer science, math, physics, electrical engineering, philosophy, and so forth. We are serious about software engineering.

A number of our team members are also interested in quantitative finance, so this evening I will be giving a brief introduction to the Quantopian platform. We decided to open it up to the public, so anyone in Halifax this evening is welcome to attend.

A few things to note:
- Pizza and beverages will be provided.
- If you have a laptop, bring it along.
- The intro will be basic, most people attending have not used the Quantopian platform.
- After the introduction, people will work in small groups and amongst themselves.
- Anyone familiar with Quantopian is welcome to work in their own direction.
- I will give suggestions on how to proceed, for different Quantopian experience levels.

The idea is to kick-start a Quantopian community here in Halifax, and if some interesting characters visit QRA as a side-effect, then that's great.

I hope to see some of you this evening!

Cheers,

Doug Staple
Chief Scientist and Director of Advanced Technologies
QRA Corp

9 responses

Alexander Campbell

Sounds great. I will be there.

Awesome. See you there!

Delaney Mackenzie

Great to see this get off the ground, good luck and have fun!

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Thanks, Delaney.

Folks: Here is a trivial "hello world" example from the algorithms environment:

For getting started with the pipeline API, the pipeline tutorial is a great resource. I also recommend reading through and understanding the sample mean reversion algorithm provided on the Quantopian home page:

Next, here is an example usage of get_pricing in the research environment:

Finally, here's a bare-bones example of how to get started with the pipeline API in the research environment. Looking through these snippets, I see that the comments are really terse. This is because these are my own notes, which I didn't intend to share with anyone. The quality should be fine. Hopefully its mostly self-explanatory -- the examples are supposed to be minimal anyway, and you have me to ask questions.

In case the front door is locked when anyone arrives, call the office at 902-422-0212 and we'll come let you in.

The next Quantopian jam session at QRA is tentatively scheduled for July 12, 2017, at 7:30. Ray Carrol will be joining us via Skype for a discussion and to answer general finance-related questions. Dr. Carrol is the Chief Investment Officer from Brenton Hill Capital -- I personally will be looking forward to asking him some questions.

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