Ari Joury

1 month ago | towardsdatascience.com | Ari Joury

Ten years ago, everybody was fascinated by the cloud. It was the new thing, and companies that adopted it rapidly saw tremendous growth. Salesforce, for example, positioned itself as a pioneer of this technology and saw great wins. The tides are turning though. As much as cloud providers still proclaim that they’re the most cost-effective and efficient solution for businesses of all sizes, this is increasingly clashing with the day-to-day experience.

1 month ago | medium.com | Ari Joury

Member-only storyRandom Forests, XGBoost, and Neural Networks for interpolation without the black box problemAri Joury, PhD·FollowPublished inData Science Collective·9 min read·--I used to work as a scientist in theoretical particle physics. It was super data-heavy, but I generated most of that data myself with Monte Carlo simulations. If a data point was missing, I just generated a new one. These days, I work with real-world data in finance.

1 month ago | medium.datadriveninvestor.com | Ari Joury

I am an ex-scientist and I’m seeing some alarming signalsIt’s midnight. You’re surrounded by the darkest of dark night skies you’ve ever experienced. It’s a cloudless and icy cold night in the Atacama desert. Only the Milky Way is glittering above you, giving you a hint of the silhouettes of the giant astronomical telescopes nearby. Welcome to the Paranal Observatory, the world’s second-largest optical-infrared observatory.

1 month ago | medium.com | Ari Joury

Say you want to find out how the creative industry is doing post-AI. Maybe you even want to know how it fared in other disruptive times. You put together a list of companies in the creative sector — Netflix, Warner Bros, Spotify, Adobe, and so on. You have established a long list of companies in this sector, and now you just need their financial data to figure out how well (or unwell) they’re doing these days. The quickest way to get this data is through APIs like yfinance and others.

2 months ago | blog.towardsfinance.com | Ari Joury

Identifying winners and losers using current and future techniquesThe financial world has come a long way since its depiction in Wolf of Wall Street. Far from relying on low tech and less-than-ethical practices for making money, workers in finance are realizing that in today’s world you get ahead by being smart and ethical. Even if people try to be unethical, they can’t get very far these days.