Category: Blog Post

• January 25, 2024

  Forecasting Private Equity Capital Calls

  Back in 2018, during my MS in Business Analytics program, Daniel Quijano, Tomas Fernandez, and I did some consulting work for the University of Texas Investment Management Company (UTIMCO), the UT and Texas A&M endowment that currently manages $65 billion in assets under management. We wrote a (non-published) white paper on a novel methodology to…
• July 26, 2022

  Understanding the Data Science Landscape

  Machine Learning has been around for decades starting with academic research in the 1950s. While there were important theoretical advances and applications, widespread commercial adoption of ML was slow until the 2010s. But as talent became more available, open-source software libraries matured, and compute became cheaper, we saw a Cambrian Explosion of startups and enterprises…