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REvolution R Enterprise with Parallel Processing Now Available for 64-bit Windows

Working with R Community Leaders and Microsoft, REvolution Provides More Memory and Greater Computational Speed, Plus Parallelization for Predictive Analytics Using the R Language

http://www.asymptotix.eu/node/336

Added by John A Morrison on April 18, 2009 at 3:52am — No Comments

Personal Advice from REvolution Computing to ME!

I wonder (I know it's a little self obsessed) but I just wonder if this blog entry on the the REvolution Computing blog "REvolutions" is not personal advice, narrowcasted to ME!?

You know that feeling you get when you are in a crowd and a speaker makes a point which you feel cannot be anything but personally directed at YOU! Or when you are at a concert and you feel the lead vocalist is singing to you!!

Ususally that psychological interpretation is just a strong… Continue

Added by John A Morrison on April 3, 2009 at 12:56am — No Comments

What am I doing with my blogging? A Theory Forge for Quantitative Risk Management!

Is it a vanity project? Am I writing a story with a beginning a middle and an end? In a way Yes! I really started blogging here on Analytic Bridge, Vincent Granville encouraged me, back in the day when Analytic Bridge had few members. I thought Analytic Bridge was an optimal place to blog references to banking supervision papers which had a quantitative orientation generally and I think I was correct in that. Now I have to blog corporately, I have to support the company in which I am a partner.… Continue

Added by John A Morrison on March 11, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

R/Finance 2009: Applied Finance with R

The first annual R/Finance conference for applied finance using R , the premier free software system for statistical computation and graphics, will be held this spring in Chicago, IL, USA on Friday April 24 and Saturday April 25.

Assembled to talk over the two days are some of the industry's most recognizable authorities within the world of R and quantitative finance.

R/Finance 2009 is organized by a leading group of R package authors and community contributors, and hosted… Continue

Added by John A Morrison on February 24, 2009 at 3:21am — No Comments

Interoperability: the great enabler: The Financial Times by Michael Schrage

The writer researches the economics of innovation at MIT’s Sloan School and at Imperial College’s Business School

Here is a quote from the article;-

" .... as interoperability becomes the technical locus of innovation strategy worldwide, regulators may feel compelled to enshrine, loosen or shatter market standards. Interoperability standards can create, or destroy, innovation oligopolies and monopolies. Interoperability represents a challenge to competition policies in… Continue

Added by John A Morrison on February 12, 2009 at 2:42am — No Comments

The Argument for Community Open Source in Financial Predictive Analytics.

The Central Banks, Universities, Software Vendors, individual developers and consulting firms are constantly publishing papers in the public domain about how to do modern risk management, most of these model risk management in R. There is no question that in general black box proprietary closed source predictive analytics have failed the banking industry and thus society through this crisis period. The detailed evidenced argument that the manner of implementing risk analytics is already done by… Continue

Added by John A Morrison on February 8, 2009 at 10:39pm — No Comments

REvolution Computing Makes High Performance ‘REvolution R’ Available For Download

REvolution Computing Makes High Performance ‘REvolution R’

Available For Download

New Haven, CT – January 28, 2009 – REvolution Computing, a leading provider of open source predictive analytics solutions, today announced that it has made a public version of its commercial grade REvolution R program available for download from its website. REvolution R is REvolution Computing’s distribution of the popular R statistical software, optimized for use in commercial… Continue

Added by John A Morrison on January 29, 2009 at 3:00am — No Comments

A Layered Integrated Enterprise Solution Architecture for Financial Predictive Analytics

I think that as an aspect of governments taking equity or preference interest in the banks whilst simultaneously acting as 'counterparty of last resort' in the structured products and credit derivatives markets, a situation which is simply not, even medium term, tenable; the governments should insist that the banks implement modern systems which will support financial analytics in an holistic sense. Systems holistic enough that the banks' boards of management cannot use the 'we were not told'… Continue

Added by John A Morrison on January 27, 2009 at 10:00pm — No Comments

Quantitative Analytics in Banking: How do we get the Heads Out of the Sand

The press has got onto thinking about what is wrong with banking right now, it has taken a crisis to get them to focus. It has taken a crisis to bring the banks and their supervisors closer together, sharing a common objective and that at the very least is one good thing to evolve from this crisis. Supervisors and senior Bankers are at least on adjacent pages. But that is only in terms of the regulatory and transparency requirements, the theory, the jurisprudence if you will. It will take the… Continue

Added by John A Morrison on January 25, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

REvolution Computing Joins with Columbia University to Host Conference on Computational Finance with R

REvolution Computing, the leading commercial provider of software and support for the open source statistical computing language, "R," will sponsor and co-host a conference and workshop about using statistical computing with R in finance, Computational Finance with R, at Columbia University on Thursday, December 4, 2008.

The conference will bring together academics and practitioners in computational finance to showcase the efficacy of statistical computing with R in many areas of… Continue

Added by John A Morrison on November 10, 2008 at 3:30am — No Comments