Despite the increase in health consciousness among consumers, chocolate and other confectioneries are still in high demand The new pricing methods for cocoa could cause candy makers to hike their prices Some candy products have more room to change their prices because their quantity demanded won’t shift substantially. Other products are completely the opposite. Candy…
Read MoreKyla, Not Kayla: The Impact of Being Called the Wrong Name
A lot of people call me by the wrong name. Some variation of Kyle, Kayla (most common), or Kylie will normally replace the two-syllable name that my parents bestowed upon me twenty-two years ago (pronounced kuh/eye-la). Kyla means “triumphant” in Gaelic, a nod to my second-generation Irish heritage.
Read MoreSummarizing Malcom Gladwell’s Talking to Strangers in One Slide
I’ve been challenging myself to be concise lately. How can I explain information in the most succinct and understandable way?
Read MoreThe Bookstore to the App Store: What Our Apps Say About Us
This week has been tumultous, to say the least. The geopolitical environment is extremely tense, the discourse is combative, and no one can agree on anything. I spent the last week or so in Kentucky, and came back to Los Angeles last night.
Read MoreMy Favorite Charts, Pictures, and Ideas of 2019
Below are all my favorite pictures, ideas, and charts from January – December 2019 – a visual representation of some of the coolest things that I’ve been reading, thinking about, and studying for the past year. Most of them are scraped from the non-financial tweets that I’ve liked over the past 12 months.
Read MoreStatistics in One Slide: Sample Mean
“If you can’t explain it to a baby, then you don’t really understand it”
Read MoreSeeing the Clouds for the First Time, Again
I was riding in an airplane recently, flying from Kentucky to Los Angeles. I had a three hour layover in the Las Vegas airport, which I spent reading about the correlation between value and momentum factors, as one does.
Read MoreThe Art of Running a Good Race
I used to be really into running. I ran all throughout middle school and high school, and had the opportunity to join my college’s Division I team my sophomore year. Unfortunately, timing was not on my side during that season of life, so I wasn’t able to fully execute my running dreams.
Read MoreTableau Redesign: Revisiting the Student Needs Report
I’ve been able to spend some of my off-work time exploring data viz and am making my way through several different Tableau programs at the moment. I decided to revamp some of our Student Needs Report data, which was a project I did with two amazing colleagues, Francis and Victoria.
Read MoreWhat’s Turning the Markets: The Fed, China, and Corporate Debt
The Federal Reserve has played an increasingly important role in investor sentiment. China is unlikely to roll off U.S. Treasuries due to the interconnectedness of the global economy. Triple B corporate debt is a huge risk factor to investors, and should be avoided. Combining a diversified portfolio of equities and bonds is the best path…
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