Data Science + Economics
Welcome to Deepforest.io where I host some of my work in data science and economics. I am a Calgary-based Data Scientist currently working with a private equity fund. My current research interests include economic policy analysis, network analysis, and quantum computing.
Keenan Viney,
Data Scientist
Graduating with a Masters in Economics and a large skill set in statistics and mathematical modeling, my goal was to apply these in business. In my experience, I have found that businesses often have significant data assets but their legacy IT infrastructure makes it difficult to access. Through my background in computer programming and information technology, I am able to do complete end-to-end analysis and help businesses use their data to generate value.
Portfolio
Contra ACT On The Extinction Tournament
In my last blog post, I discussed participating in a Forecasting Tournament through the University of Pennsylvania. One of the top rationalist blogs, Astral Codex Ten (ACT) wrote a post discussing findings from the tournament, specifically focusing on the issue of artificial intelligence (AI). The forecasting tournament focused on existential risks and asked about the…
Canadian Economic Expectations: Moderation, News, and Animal Spirits
Keenan Viney Abstract: Expectations play a vital role in the current approach to macroeconomic modeling. By studying the role of expectations directly, it is possible to gain insight into how the economy aggregates and utilizes information. This paper examines whether or not expectations themselves can drive real output. The results suggest that in Canada, expectations…
Information and Policy in the 2008 Financial Crisis: A model of the overnight lending market
Keenan Viney Introduction The deep recession of 2008 was touched off by financial crisis. In the years before the credit crunch, banks across the globe had been engineering and trading new types of financial derivatives. One of these new derivatives was the Credit Default Swap (CDS). Put simply, these were insurance policies against default on…
“Theories are formulated, explanations are developed, and predictions generated. Most importantly, all such efforts may be communicated to others-including those generating the ‘phenomena under study.’ Such communication can, in turn, operate as an input into the population and serve to alter its subsequent character. The socio-behavioral scientist and the society thus constitute a feedback loop, and this fact does pose a radical difference between most socio-behavioral and natural science study.”
- Kenneth J. Gergen, Toward Tranformation in Social Knowledge
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