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By Gontran de Quillacq
On June 16, 2022

Top French quant: Best mathematicians are in France, or Russia

Should data science be a area of mathematics or a science by itself? Raphael Douady, a prized financial market academic, contends that it is a science in itself, and that French and Russian mathematicians ranks among the best.

Raphael DouadyCock-a-doodle-doo! Cocorico! Kukareku!
With a (33%, 33%, 15%) weighting scheme…

Joke aside, Raphael Douady highlights important issues about the importance of data science in financial markets, the consideration of data science in science, and the high efficiency of AI models which often outshine good old regressions.

Credit to Sarah Butcher at eFinancialCareers for the article, and a shoutout to Olga Kolokolova who conducts important research in the area.

 

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