Robert Hardy is a full stack quant, with over 12 years of experience in the front office teams of major financial institutions. He has built professional portfolio management systems entirely from open source components. He experienced an epiphany when he was introduced to TDD, pair programming and Agile methods. Robert talks and blogs on topics related to software and mathematics, and with his diploma in painting and ceramics in hand he claims to even have some level of expertise in the Fine Arts.
Talks I've Given
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Workshop: Big Data Machine Learning with Python and Spark on AWS
Featuring Robert Hardy
Robert Hardy will host an interactive workshop on how to use Spark with Python to carry out machine learning algorithms when you have too much data to comfortably work with Pandas.
Attendees should bring along a laptop and should open an account on AWS. All code and setup scripts will be...
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Key Concepts in Statistical Inference
Featuring Robert Hardy
Robert Hardy will present an introduction to some of the key concepts in statistical inference. Don't miss it!
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Agile Data Science
Featuring Robert Hardy
At this month's Full Stack Quants, Robert Hardy will present some of the key points and technology used in Russell Jurney’s book Agile Data Science 2 (O’Reilly). Don't miss it!
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Setting up a Spark cluster on AWS
Featuring Robert Hardy
Robert Hardy will give a live coding walkthrough on how to set up and use a Spark cluster on AWS. Don't miss it!
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TDD-ing a Bayesian classifier - Beginners
Featuring Robert Hardy
In this live coding session Robert Hardy will share how to code up a simple Bayesian classifier, using Python with the Pandas package. That in itself will be interesting to people unfamiliar with the principles behind a Bayesian classifier. However, Robert will also be showing how a TDD approach...
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Join Robert Hardy at TDD-ing a Bayesian Classifier
Featuring Robert Hardy
Are you interested in learning more about Bayesian classifiers? Join Robert Hardy for this live code session where he'll be showing how a TDD approach can help you deliver quality code. Don't miss it!
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The Royal Road to Pandas Magic
Featuring Robert Hardy
If you do data science in Python it is crucial to be fluent with the Pandas library.
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Data Science meets Poker
Featuring Robert Hardy
Robert Hardy will present a live-coding session where we use the Python Pandas data-science library to carry out some analysis of poker strategies.
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Front-ending with Elm
Featuring Robert Hardy
Robert Hardy presents a live-coding introduction to Elm, a Haskell-ish functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript at this month's Full Stack Quants!
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Keeping Your Services Up
Featuring Robert Hardy
Are you interested in keeping up to date with all things Quants? Don't miss out on this month's meetup!
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Coding
Featuring Robert Hardy
Robert Hardy will talk about some of the issues, ideas and personal intuitions that influence his approach to coding and his choices of tools. Interested in learning more about utilising quants? Join Full Stack Quants for this month's meetup!
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Build yourself a fintech data science toolkit for free with open source software
Featuring Robert Hardy
Excel has proved to be the tool of choice for (tens of?) thousands of traders and market analysts who have been doing data science -- finding relationships between assets and economic metrics -- since times before the category 'data scientist' even existed.
But as the data sets get bigger...
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Introduction to QuantLib
Featuring Robert Hardy
Although QuantLib has been around as open source for almost 16 years, a lot of people still do not know it well enough.
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Full Stack Quants
Featuring Robert Hardy
Interested in how JavaScript and finance work together? Join us for this months Full Stack Quants meetup! Robert Hardy will present a second live coding session in which we continue building a web application with Python and JavaScript.
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Full stack Quants meetup
Featuring Robert Hardy
Robert Hardy will present a live coding session in which we code up a basic web application with Python and JavaScript. You do not need to know Python or JavaScript at all, the technical level will be kept as simple as possible. The aim is to demonstrate how all the pieces of web development fit...
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