Chris Conlan

Financial Data Scientist

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The Best Language for XYZ: Answered Empirically

August 9, 2017 By Chris Conlan 2 Comments

Programming topics by programming language in open-source repos of big companies

One of the biggest jobs of CTOs and Technical Project Managers is to answer: What is the best software stack for building XYZ? On the web… Internet forums like Quora and Stack Overflow are littered with these kinds of questions. This is understandable, because committing to the wrong software stack can be deadly in the […]

Filed Under: Business Management, Programming with Python

Download Historical Stock Data with R and Python

July 24, 2017 By Chris Conlan 35 Comments

Update #2: Track this Issue Here Updates to this post are more about which API’s are still supported than how to access them with R, Python, or any other language. Follow the hilarious change history of EOD stock data API’s at my other post: https://chrisconlan.com/download-daily-data-every-sp-500-stock-r/. Update: Using Quandl’s API Because everything I write about breaks, […]

Filed Under: Automated Trading, Programming with Python, Programming with R

Procedurally Generating a Maze in Blender Python

July 23, 2017 By Chris Conlan 1 Comment

Everyone knows I am a fan of Blender Python. It’s really fun. This post will discuss a brief script for procedurally generating a maze in Blender Python. This may be the boilerplate code for a larger routine that produces massive randomly-generated landscapes. In this brief code, we will run into some fairly advanced concepts in […]

Filed Under: 3D Technology and Virtual Reality, Programming with Python

The Best Way to Develop Blender Python Add-ons

June 26, 2017 By Chris Conlan 8 Comments

When I began developing with Blender Python, I used the text editor that was built in to the Blender GUI. I did this for way too long without realizing how inefficient it was. After talking to a few veteran developers, I learned that the best way to develop Blender Python is outside of Blender. Background […]

Filed Under: 3D Technology and Virtual Reality, Programming with Python

Visualizing Data with Blender Python

June 26, 2017 By Chris Conlan 4 Comments

In the past, I have written about the potential for 3D rendering and virtual reality to improve multivariate data visualization. I my new book, The Blender Python API, I have recorded and explained some of the methods I use for multivariate data visualization in Blender. This article is a taste of what can be found […]

Filed Under: 3D Technology and Virtual Reality, Programming with Python

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