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March 31, 2022
Precision vs Recall Trade-off
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Explaining using a real-world scenario One of the key points that data scientists should ask end-users is: How much importance do they give ...
February 14, 2021
Pivot view of key value table
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select userid, max(case when name = 'EMAIL' then val else 0 end) as email, max(case when name = 'PHONE' then val else 0 end...
March 20, 2020
Quadruple Witching
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Quadruple Witching refers to the 3rd Friday of every quarter i.e March, June, September and December. This is the trading day when: mar...
February 12, 2020
Passwordless authentication with Ionic and Firebase
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Create an ionic project > ionic start myproject Give a package id in file >myproject/config.xml < widget id = ...
August 14, 2019
serial rank in select statement
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sel a, b, rank() over(order by c) from table1
July 25, 2019
Teradata SQL Regular Expression to compare date format
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Verify if date is in format dd-MMM-yyyy select regexp_similar(a_date,'^(([0-9])|([0-2][0-9])|([3][0-1]))\-(JAN|FEB|MAR|APR|MAY|JUN|J...
June 21, 2019
WITH clause in Teradata SQL
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WITH CTE1 AS (select current_date as today) select today from CTE1; Ref: http://dwgeek.com/teradata-with-clause-syntax-usage-and-examples...
April 17, 2019
Apple Qualcomm settlement
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Interesting read: https://9to5mac.com/2019/04/17/apple-qualcomm-and-intel/ Graphical diagram explaining players involved and their roles. ...
Semantic Triple in RDF
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Composed of: Subject -> Predicate -> Object A subject : which is a URI (e.g., a "web address") that represents something...
April 16, 2019
Apache Jena RDF API
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Abstractions Resource: representing an RDF resource (whether named with a URI or anonymous) Literal: for data values (numbers, strings, d...
April 10, 2019
Spread
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Offer/Ask price: $100.50 Bid price: $99.50 Spread = 100.50 - 99.50 = $1.00
FIX protocol and FIXadtl
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Financial Information eXchange (FIX) is a messaging protocol used to exchange trade related messages between trading systems. FIXatdl (FIX...
March 29, 2019
Basis Points
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1 basis point = 1/100 of a percentage. Used mainly in Finance like changes in interest rate. Example: "The Federal Open Market Commi...
Unicorn
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With many unicorn IPOs getting listed in 2019, one question is "what is a unicorn?" Wikipedia states: Unicorn is a privately he...
March 25, 2019
Spider - SPDR
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Stands for Standard & Poor’s Depository Receipt. It is a S&P 500 index based ETF maintained by State Street Global Advisors. Each sh...
Leading and lagging economic indicators
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Leading indicators 1. Stock market 2. Manufacturing activity 3. Inventory levels 4. Retail sales 5. Building permits 6. Housi...
March 14, 2019
Evaluating bank stocks
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Ref: Motley Fool youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfT5FaaqNxI&list=PLXIJDn8_-fyEsbjwBto2GzIS1JPq5I2iR&index=8 Objective of...
Shareholder's Equity
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Suppose if a company is liquidated today i.e. all assets sold off and liabilities paid off, then the amount of money left for the shareholde...
Where to find SEC filings?
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It's available on EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval) website.
Can retired shared be reissued?
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No. Whereas Treasury stocks can be.
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