Alan Feder

Principal Data Scientist at Invesco

Alan Feder is a Principal Data Scientist at Invesco, where he uses data science, statistics, and machine learning to solve problems and build products throughout the company. Previously, he worked as a data scientist at AIG and an actuary at Swiss Re. He studied statistics and mathematics at Columbia University.

WATCH LIVE: February 16 @ 4:00PM – 4:30PM ET

NLP in Finance: Beyond Predicting Alpha

As NLP has exploded within the world of Data Science and Machine Learning, it is now everywhere in finance as well. Many of us have heard about using NLP to try to outperform the market and predict stock prices. However, NLP is much more versatile than that, and has many other uses as well throughout the finance world. In this talk, I will explore a number of methodologies within NLP, explaining how they are being used in finance to help professionals do their job more efficiently and effectively.