quantitative analysis for non-finance?

[tuncalik]

Hello

What fields or applications are there (or could there be) that require quantitative analysis excluding the finance industry?

Tunc

 

[euroazn]

Pretty much anything. What's the context of the question?

 

[Daniel Duffy]

Oil and gas.

 

[Ken Abbott]

Operations Research has many non-finance applications. Think scheduling: rail, air, power.

 

[Keith Tan]

transport, airlines... and even real estate.

 

[Dataminer]

OR is all about optimizing given certain parameters. So OR has tons and tons of quantitative analysis

 

[tuncalik]

I wondered why people tend to think that there can be a market for an analytical software (Table Functions in .NET) only in the finance industry.

I am trying to find out in which industries we could find a market for a .NET Calculation Engine based on Table Functions, and for what sort of applications.

 

[Daniel Duffy]

NET Calculation Engine based on Table Functions,

I wondered why people tend to think that there can be a market for an analytical software (Table Functions in .NET) only in the finance industry.

I am trying to find out in which industries we could find a market for a .NET Calculation Engine based on Table Functions, and for what sort of applications.

What is a ".NET Calculation Engine based on Table"?

It could be anything.

 

[tuncalik]

What is a "Calculation Engine based on Table Functions"?

explained here, there is a 5-minute video for a quick overview.

Table Functions can be compared to Matrix Functions from linear algebra. The difference is, input and output arguments are (in-memory) data tables instead of matrices.

 

[euroazn]

This could be used for anything with Data Analytics, which in turn is used in literally every industry, from retail, to marketing, to energy.

Unsurprisingly, "quants" are found in all of these industries.

 

[DailyStockSelect]

Pretty much anything. What's the context of the question?

yeah right!
i come from theoretical chemistry and it s full of it!

 

[tuncalik]

Nice to hear, because we have published a free non-commercial .net library named finaquant protos (including Table/Matrix/Vector functions) for esp. academical purposes. I would like it to be used in positive sciences like theoretical biology, physics and chemistry.