Susan Potter
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Data Science

Data science in a quant context means exploring market data, engineering meaningful features, and applying machine learning with the statistical discipline that finance demands. I write about the exploratory workflows, validation techniques, and pitfalls specific to financial data, where overfitting is the default outcome and out-of-sample performance is the only metric that matters.


2026-05
Quant

From Hypothesis to Production: A Quant's Productivity Toolkit

Productivity in quantitative work isn’t about doing things faster. It’s about knowing when to stop. A walkthrough of the tools and stages I use to take a trading strategy hypothesis from …