While Python is an all-purpose general programming language, its success has mostly been in the arena of data analysis (including by academics), thanks to its compact, abstracted libraries that ...

After reaching the limits of MATLAB, a group of quantitative analysts at Bloomberg set out to develop a new system for building and exploring machine learning models. That effort eventually turned ...

Have you ever found yourself wrestling with Excel formulas, wishing for a more powerful tool to handle your data? Or maybe you’ve heard the buzz about Python in Excel and wondered if it’s truly the ...

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Back in 2013, Bloomberg’s world-class quantitative researchers were looking for an alternative to MATLAB, a programming and numeric computing platform for analyzing data, developing algorithms, and ...

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