Javascript for the Financial Analyst
Javascript for the Financial Analyst
About the Book
The ubiquitous Excel spreadsheet is both a gift and a curse to the finance industry.
On the one hand it is both a lingua franca and visually intuitive.
However, many problems are hard to solve, and even if solveable, it is difficult to show correctness when many hundreds of cell formulae are present.
Visual Basic for Applications can help, but it is showing its age, and many slightly different copies of spreadsheets lead to headaches.
JavaScript is even more ubiquitous than Excel (found in every Web browser) and is actively invested in by Microsoft, Apple, Google and Mozilla. Moreover it lends itself to being distributed centrally via the web.
It is a singular language.
Not only will this book show you how to use JavaScript for your everyday tasks, it will show you how to do it both beautifully and concisely.
About the Author
Table of Contents
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Introduction
- Javascript
- Functional
- The Way Forward
- Running Code
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Getting Started with JavaScript
- Welcome to the Web’s OS
- More Info
- Try
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Maps
- A Line of Code
- Extras
- Plumbing
- More Info
- Try
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Pipes
- Plumbing Aesthetics
- More Info
- Try
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Reduce
- Beginner’s Origami
- Efficiency
- Fundamental
- More Info
- Try
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Higher Order Functions
- Functional Inputs
- Form and Function
- More Info
- Try
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Decomposition
- Lobotomised
- Frankenstein
- Conclusion
- More Info
- Try
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Asynchronicity & Performance
- Async
- VLookUp Example
- Generators
- Summary
- More Info
- Try
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Concurrency
- Monte Carlo Method
- Concurrency
- Summary
- More Info
- Try
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Visualisation
- Plotly
- Going 3D
- Summary
- More Info
- Try
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D3
- Pipes
- Select & Enter
- Result
- Summary
- More Info
- Try
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Statistics
- Async
- Decomposable Functions
- Pipes
- Bringing It All Together
- Summary
- More Info
- Try
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Turbo Boost
- Underscore
- Lo Level Skulduggery
- Lazy.js
- Summary
- More Info
- Try
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Numerical Analysis
- Keeping Things Simple
- Portfolio Optimisation
- Summary
- More Info
- Try
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Immutability
- S&M
- Mutable Hell
- Simplicity
- An Example
- Conclusion
- More Info
- Try
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Babel
- Setup
- Postbox Example
- A Neat Trick
- Conclusion
- More Info
- Try
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Post Script
- Libraries
- In Relation to Python and R
- Node
- Runtime Improv
- Conclusion
- More Info
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Appendix - Pipes and Extending Prototypes
- Conclusion
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Appendix - Recursion
- Conclusion
- More Info
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