Hi, my name is Markus Schanta and this is my personal blog.

In 2019 I founded BlueBalance Capital together with my partners. Prior to that, I was a quantitative researcher at London-based asset management and before that, I was a quantitative strategist at an international investment bank. I hold a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Columbia University in New York, where I also received a Fulbright Scholarship and a Bachelor’s degree from Vienna University of Technology.

On a day-to-day basis, I analyse data to better understand a trade, a larger economic development, a company or an industry. In technical terms, that means a lot of data wrangling or visualising data. My tools of chice are Python, pandas, Jupyter and altair. I have given talks about how I use these tools at various conferences. You find my open-source code on GitHub. This blog is a collection of posts that further explain some of the tools/techniques that I use.

Caveat emptor: I just started this blog in November 2022, so there might only be a limited number of articles here.