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+# What is pluto?
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+pluto is a compute cloud for exploratory financial data analysis.
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+# Why?
+
+## Financial data is expensive and dirty
+
+* Multiple vendors, different formats, orthogonal assumptions
+* Upfront investment in licensing, database setup and cleaning
+* Time-stamped meta-data is non-existent
+
+## Analysis is incomplete
+
+* Almost all analysis is done by practitioners who may not have a background in statistics
+* Non-replicable
+* Only positive backtests are shared
+* Impossible to share research and solicit feedback
+
+# What are the unsolved problems in this space?
+
+## Bringing data to code is hard (Quandl, IEX)
+
+* High bandwidth requirement – piping different data to different endpoints
+* Usage is not predictable – should a dataset be hot/warm/tepid/cold
+* Data needs to be metered
+
+## Bringing code to data is harder (Quantopian)
+
+* Prevent malicious code
+* Prevent data leakage
+* Compute needs to be metered 
+
+## Defining the user is the hardest
+
+Who are we building for? Academic? Trader? Investor? Student?
+
+Hard Problems + Business Model = Product Design
+
+***pluto is primarily built for the academic in you.***
+
+# What are pluto's design goals and constraints?
+
+* Data leak-proof
+* Metered database load
+* Metered compute
+* Facilitate collaboration
+* Familiar interface
+* Documented datasets
+
+# How does it work?
+
+The public facing website is a customized JupyterHub that allows you to login through your github account and run either python or R code. To access data-sets provided by pluto, just include some standard headers and get going. When you hit "execute", the entire notebook is executed by a local compute instance and the entire result is sent back. This happens through a mongodb queue. And everything is updated on your github account under a repo called *plutons*. [/media](media) has presentations and a screencast of the POC.
+
+* server-side repo: [plutoX](https://github.com/shyams80/plutoX)
+* python data-set package: [plutoPy](https://github.com/shyams80/plutoPy), [samples](https://github.com/shyams80/plutons/tree/master/docs-py)
+* R data-set package: [plutoR](https://github.com/shyams80/plutoR), [samples](https://github.com/shyams80/plutons/tree/master/docs-R)
+
+Read to give it a whirl? Explore on [pluto.studio](http://pluto.studio)
+