Musings from a developer and father, on this that and everything...
In the last post, we looked at taking daily valuations and transactions for a hypothetical investment account and computing daily returns and an index series. In this post, we ll take that analysis further by computing some drawdown statistics and comparing the fund s performance against a benchmark. We ll start this analysis using the index and return
In this post, I ll demonstrate how to use Enso to analyse the performance of a hypothetical investment account. Starting from a daily valuation and transaction history, we ll create a return series and convert it into an index to show monthly returns and statistics. The Input Data For this analysis, we have two input data files:
One of Enso s strengths is its ability to easily gather and process data from various sources, particularly web-based APIs. In this post, using Enso, I ll show how to combine data from FRED and Wikipedia to create a dataset of UK Prime Ministers and the annualised inflation rate during their time in office. My goal is
It s been a little while since I last posted, as the team and I at Enso have been hard at work on the new version of the app. We released version 2025.1 a couple of weeks ago with a huge number of new features and improvements. As anyone live in the UK will know, it
So it s that time of the year again it s even snowing here in London as I write this. That means it s time for the Advent of Code. For those who haven t heard of it, this is a fantastic set of 25 puzzles released one by one every day in December until Christmas Day. Each
In this post, I will use the results from my last post to review how each category has performed against the sales targets the company has set. The completed workflow from that post can be downloaded from GitHub. The sales targets are stored in a JSON file, so they must first be parsed and then
In this post, I will build on top of my last post and go over how to parse values in the dataset, select down to just the columns we are interested in, and finally aggregate the data. The previous post covered installing Enso and then loading in some data. This post starts from the workflow
In this post, I will use Enso to read and process a CSV file. Enso is being designed and built to make it easier to process, blend and analyse data. It is a new programming language designed to have a dual representation both as text and as a visual graph. The dataset used in this
Enso is a functional programming language that lets you quickly and simply load, blend, and analyze your data. We ve been building out the core capabilities of the product and are rapidly working on the IDE and cloud release to give a straightforward experience for users using it. To show some of the new capabilities, I
Some members of the team building Enso decided to try and tackle last year s Advent of Code using the language and see how far we could get. I ve previously tried solving Advent of Code in Alteryx and was personally interested to know whether it is easier or more challenging with what we are building. For