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Data Science At Gartner Innovation Center

This past summer I was lucky to work for Gartner, at their innovation center in Tel-Aviv, Israel (called “GICI”). I worked as a datascientist on three different projects: one was a BI-style project, one was on a recommendation system, and one focused on ways to leverage big-data.

GICI is a...

Ivy-League Education VS Income

I wanted to create a simple chart that will help folks like my-few-years-younger-self make good college decisions. Specifically, I wanted to present data that will help teenagers understand whether the industry-wide benchmark, low acceptance rate, really is the right statistic to take into consideration when considering alternatives.

Data: In order to diagnose correlation between acceptance rates, and expected income I had to...

Niederhoffer

This is my very first blog post. I haven’t written anything yet but I’m sure I have some great stories to tell.

For two and a half months I was part of the trading team. I worked on two projects, and learned from the best traders about macroeconomics, the market, creativity and team work.

During my time at Niederhoffer I...