R-Ladies Madrid: R in Finance Industries

¡Nos vemos el día 25 con una invitada muy especial! ¡Chiayi Yen es la fundadora de R-Ladies Taipei (https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/R-Ladies-Taipei/) y en su viaje por Europa viene a hacernos una visita! Estamos muy orgullosas de poder contar con ella para el meetup de febrero.

Este meetup será en inglés, no importa que seas bueno o malo en inglés, lo que importa es que vengas y lo disfrutes, como cada mes. Y como siempre, después de las charlas tomaremos un pequeño bocado donde podréis conocer más a nuestra compañera taipeiana.

Por otra parte, Cristina Gonzalez de Microsoft nos presentará el Microsoft MVP Award y su trabajo con comunidades y los retos que esto presenta a la hora de adoptar las últimas tecnologías.

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We will see you on the 25th with a pleasant surprise! Chiayi Yen, founder of R-Ladies Taipei (https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/R-Ladies-Taipei/), comes to Europe and will detour her trip to come and visit! We are very proud to have this special guest for our february meetup.

This meetup will be in English, don't matter if you are good or bad talking in English, what matters is that you come and enjoy. And afterwards, we will have something to eat to network a little and get to know our R-Lady.

On the other hand, we will have the pleasure of meeting Cristina Gonzalez. She will talk about the Microsoft MVP Award and her job leading communities and as a influencer.

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Topic:

Data Manipulation and Machine Learning with R in Finance Industries

Abstract:

In this 30 minutes talk, I will share some of my experiences working on the data manipulation and machine learning modeling in finance industry, especially for the field of quantitative trading modeling. I will briefly introduce some useful tools including Microsoft R server, Azure ML Studio, and Quantstrat-- a powerful backtesting framework in R.

Speaker:

Chiayi Yen, the founder of R-Ladies Taipei, is currently a data science consultant in iiNumber and LendBand. With professional experiences in hedge fund and other financial institutions, her specialty lies on quantitative modeling especially in the fields of portfolio management, proprietary trading, and peer-to-peer lending. In addition, she is a enthusiastic Python and R developer who is willing to share her experiences in Machine Learning and data Extract-Transform-Load, as she has done in PyCon APAC/TW, PyCon JP, Shanghai Rconf, Microsoft HK tech forum, and other open source communities.

Abstract:

In this 40 minutes session I would like to introduce the Microsoft MVP Award Program (Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals) that has been recognizing the great contributions of community leaders in the technology world for more than 20 years. In addition to that I would like to talk about my experience working with communities and how the landscape and behaviors have changed over time as well as its latest trends and challenges.

Speaker:

Cristina Gonzalez Herrero is a marketing and communication professional with more than 15 years of experience working on technology companies. Over the past 10 years she has managed the Microsoft MVP Award Program in several European countries, where she has successfully set up influencer events and community oriented activities.

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