Presenting at Pycon 2021

As a seasoned data analyst and Python enthusiast, I recently had the honor of presenting at PyCon, the largest annual gathering of Python developers and enthusiasts from around the world. My presentation, “From Spreadsheets to DataFrames: Escaping Excel Hell with Python,” aimed to showcase the benefits of using Python and its powerful data manipulation libraries…

ZeroMQ – High-Speed Subscribers

I’ve been messing around with Low latency and high frequency message processing and figured it might be worth sharing.  I created an example of the High-Speed Subscribers (Black Box Pattern) using ZeroMQ, “a high-performance asynchronous messaging library”.  According to its creator, you can pipe through 2 mil to 6 mil+ messages per second with one…

Business Cycles and Interest Rates

Just as a refresher: “In 1977, Congress gave the Fed two main tasks: Keep the prices of things Americans buy stable, and create labor-market conditions that provide jobs for all the people who want them. The Fed has developed a toolkit to achieve these dual goals of inflation and maximum employment. But interest-rate changes make…