Tag Archives: data
Global Yield Curves
It’s been over a year since I last plotted the yield curve and a lot has happened since then. I updated the code slightly to convey a clearer visual. As expected, short-term rates have risen, as shown on the chart below. We know that the yield curve is, inherently, a forecast for what the economy holds […]
Evolution and the CEO Dilemma
Netflix is ubiquitous with personal cinema consumption whether it be on the family living room big screen or the laptop on the couch. Everyone remembers how Blockbuster was the place to go to rent a movie in sweats, but how did Netflix so successfully infiltrate their market? Blockbuster had the opportunity to buy Netflix for […]
PRISM
The past few years have been a period of enlightenment into the state of our privacy and the programs that governments are running to aid in the surveillance process. I have been trying for some time to track my personal data to measure and gain insight into my own habits but have not found one […]
Sharing Two Wheels and My Personal Data
Models It was the summer of 2008 while touring in Munich with my family when I first learned of the shared bike program that Deutsche Bahn had been running successfully for a few years. The bikes, bearing the unmistakable “DB” in big red letters, in typical utilitarianistic German fashion, made the bikes easy to spot […]
The Alchemy 