" I believe Pépé has an advanced degree in actuarial science " Actually, my undergraduate degree is in Actuarial Science; my graduate degrees are in related fields (an MS in Statistics and OR, and a PhD in (Bayesian) Statistics).
I am pretty sure I am not the only actuary which is also a member of these forums. (At any rate, I have nothing else to add, regarding the topic of this thread, to the suggestions already given.) On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 9:09 PM Devon McCormick <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe Pépé has an advanced degree in actuarial science but I pretty > sure he remains opposed to teaching people in general about J :) > > I'm not sure how J's GUI compares to, say, Shiny for R but a colleague who > has done a little programming put together a pretty nice dashboard using > Shiny in not too long a time. > > I have used the J GUI once or twice and recently pulled up an old piece of > code written in it and it mostly worked; I had to make a tweak to hide the > JQt session and there are two other behaviors I'd like to correct but it's > good enough to ship. So, seems pretty simple to me but I've only done a > simple thing with it. > > However, J has no parallel when it comes to typing in small, powerful verbs > and using them with real data, if that's any attraction. I used J the > other day because a colleague had just spent 10 minutes trying, and > failing, to do something in Excel I did in a minute in J. > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:09 PM chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I see J and R as being complementary, i.e. R for its statistical > functions > > and J as an expressive application development language that can call R > > directly. > > > > Also I think J's wd interface is probably the simplest way a finance or > > actuarial user could develop a professional quality gui. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > -- > > Devon McCormick, CFA > > Quantitative Consultant > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
