Funding Secured: The Pre-R/Finance Meetup

Come join us at the Haymarket BrewPub as we kick-off the first meetup of the year! Beverages and food provided so bring your appetite.

Dr. Dale W.R. Rosenthal: Realized Variance polluted by the bid/ask spread: Direct vs indirect corrections

Bryan Rodriguez: Cracking pdfs for estimating space vehicle launch costs
The next frontier of commercial financing & trading may very well be in space! However, the proprietary nature of launch costs make it difficult to obtain transportation cost data for modeling purposes. Enter the tabulizer R package, which binds to the Tabula Java library, and will extract clean data.frames from pdf reports! In this talk, Bryan will demonstrate how it greatly aided his workflow for estimating launch costs. Time permitting he will discuss the modeling process in greater depth. Bryan will present the full talk on pricing commodities in space at the following R/Finance conference.

Daughter & Father Duo, Katherine & Adam Ginensky: Quick Data maps with R
The purpose of this talk is to show how someone relatively new to R, can use R packages like sf & sp to plot 2D & 3D spatial data onto high quality maps in no time! This father daughter duo learned how together and will share the knowledge gained on their journey with you.

R/Finance is back, live and person for 2022! Join us June 3rd & 4th for the 14th anniversary of the R conference that brings together some of the best conversation in quantitative finance – covering R (or Python or Julia!), portfolio construction, statistics, leading edge quantitative analysis ideas and more.

We hope to see you this June 3rd and 4th at the University of Illinois at Chicago! https://www.rinfinance.com/ Register here