Articles tagged with “Research Practices”

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Using Differential Privacy to Protect Personal Data

A Winton research project with UC Berkeley used a technique for adding noise to datasets that makes it impossible to identify individuals, while preserving broader statistical patterns.
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Economies of Scales: How to Chart Long-Term Time Series

Charts are widely used in finance. As well as representing information efficiently, they can reveal relationships or anomalies in data. But their effectiveness or otherwise is a function of the choices made during chart construction.
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Experiment and Observation in Quantitative Investment

We assess which methods are most pertinent for different trading strategies, and explain why a robust research process is vital to Winton’s approach.