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In this post, I am just recording the steps that I took to go from not having PostgreSQL installed or configured on my laptop, and not having downloaded any of Kenneth French's available financial data sets, all the way to performing a very simple regression on the data in Python via native Python queries to a PostgreSQL database table.
Setup Postgres
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10, so for me, the following was needed.
sudo apt-get updateThen I needed to do some things as the postgres administrator (named "postgres" by default).
sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib
sudo su postgresAdd a new user (called 'roles' in Postgres).
< enter password >
postgres@eschaton:/home/ely$ createuser --pwpromptCreate a database where the data will eventually go:
Enter name of role to add: ely
Enter password for new role:
Enter it again:
Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) y
postgres@eschaton:/home/ely/$ createdb FamaFrenchExit back to regular user.
postgres@eschaton:/home/ely$ exitNow we can try logging in to the new database:
ely@eschaton:~$ psql -d FamaFrenchSo Postgres is up and running and we have a place to keep the data. Let's go get some data.
psql (9.1.12)
Type "help" for help.
Getting some data.
Kenneth French provides a nice assortment of academic finance data sets at the French Data Library. One of the most commonly used files is the set of monthly US market "factor" values: a set of 3 things that are supposed to a pretty good job of explaining where financial returns will come from in the US market.
This data set is found at the link titled "Fama/French Factors," currently the first link under the downloadable files section. We can click the link and save the file locally. I saved it to "/home/ely/databases/raw_data/F-F_Research_Factors.zip" and extracted it to get "F-F_Research_Factors.txt" which we can open with any standard text editor and examine.
There is a column for dates. The factors that come after the date are the excess market return, something called "SMB" and something called "HML" -- and for good measure the risk free rate is also provided. You can read Wikipedia about why these are supposed to matter: Fama French 3-Factor Model.
Also note that way at the bottom of the file, there a bit of a gap and then the same sort of data is repeated but on a yearly basis -- the yearly factor data. For our purposes, let's ignore this. So I just copied all of the monthly data and pasted it into a new file, "ff_cleaned_monthly.csv" -- you can see where I'm going: I want to make the file into a sutiable .csv file.
The first thing I notice is that the date format is pretty inconvenient. Integer dates? Really? That's positively French. But what should we use to associate the dates with an actual date-type? We could debate that a lot, but the convention I picked was to associate each row with the final weekday of the month that it describes. This isn't perfect, because some weekdays at the end of the month can be holidays (like Memorial Day) and also before September 29, 1952, NYSE actually traded on Saturdays (can you believe it!) So the last weekday might not be the final day on which trading could have happened during a month in some of the older data.
But who cares. We have to pick something, and it happens to be easy to generate a list of the final weekdays from Python. How, you ask? I wrote the following little function:
def last_weekday(year, month):and then I ran it for the particular months in our data file, 1926-07 through 2014-02:
import calendar
import numpy as np
return np.asarray(
calendar.monthcalendar(year, month))[:,0:5].max()
for year in range(1926, 2015):
for month in range(1, 13):
ld = last_weekday(year, month)
print year, month, ld
This generated some output that looked like this:
Over in Emacs, the current status of my soon-to-be .csv looks like this:
So what I want to do is change all those nasty dates from something like '192607' into something like '1926-07-30'.
Putting in the first "-" symbol is easy. I move the cursor over between the "6" and the "0", hit C-<space> to set a marker, and then page all the way down to the bottom, effectively selecting a 0-width column. Then I type C-x r t followed by the thing I want to type, - and hit enter. Voila, it writes that text along the entire column. I can repeat this on the other side of the month number to the the second - symbol for the date strings.
Now I need to do something similar for writing in the appropriate last day of the month. For this, I first copied all of the month-end output from my IPython session into the bottom of my work-in-progress .csv file. I moved to the top left of this pasted data, hit C-<space> to set a mark, and moved down to the bottom right. At that point I type M-x kill-rectangle to copy the rectangle of text to the Emacs clipboard.
I move up to the spot where I'd want the top left of that column to be pasted, right after the "06-" in the first line of data. Then I type M-x yank-rectangle to paste it. Yeah, Emacs calls copying killing and pasting yanking. I wonder if anyone 500 years ago ever thought that someone would write the English sentence "Yeah, Emacs calls copying killing and pasting yanking."? Kind of makes you wonder what sorts of English sentences there might be floating around in 500 years from now.
Now we're almost done cleaning the data. We have the nicely formatted dates at the beginning of each line. But we need the file to be a .csv. Right now it is some kind of space- or tab-delimited file and I don't want to fiddle with that.
This is where the Emacs ability to bind keyboard macros on the fly comes in super handy. If you type C-x ( <some key strokes> C-x ), then Emacs will remember <some key strokes> and re-execute precisely that key stroke sequence when you type C-x e.
I played around for a while and it didn't seem super easy to come up with a set of key strokes that neatly deleted the white space and added commas at the needed spots. Here's what I finally came up with (I use the notation (right) to mean pressing the right-arrow key, and so on for up, down or left):
C-x ( # Line 1Line 1: Starts the remembering-all-keystrokes mode.
C-u 3 C-(right) # Line 2
M-x search-forward-regexp [^[:space:]] (left) , # Line 3
C-space C-(left) (right) (right) <del> # Line 4
# repeat the above two lines 3 more times # Line 5
(down) <home> # Line 6
C-x ) # Line 7
Line 2: Equivalent of pressing Ctrl and the right arrow 3 times in a row, to move through the date characters.
Line 3: Moves ahead to just after the next non-space character, steps back by one position, and places a comma.
Line 4: Sets a mark, moves back to the previous decimal point, then move to the right by two spots since everything has two decimal places. Then deletes the selection, which will be all of the white space.
Line 5: Repeat lines 3 and 4 for each of the remaining data columns. Thus could be done by saving lines 3 and 4 together as their own macro, and C-u-ing it.
Line 6: Go to the start of the next line
Line 7: Stop listening to keystrokes, thus defining our new macro.
Then do C-x e a bunch of times.
Protip: after doing C-x e once, you can just press e by itself. Heh, you might say that e is the way that Emacs naturally logs your command (rimshot). You can also type C-x u <number> <command-to-repeat> to repeat <command-to-repeat> for <number> times in a row.
So we want to do this for 6 months in 1926 + 2 months in 2014 + 12*(2013-1926) - 1 line that we already processed while making the macro = 1051 total months. So after defining the keyboard macro, we could move the cursor to the beginning of the second line of data, and type C-x u 1051 C-x e and, as Emeril might have said if he had been attracted to a career in computer science instead of cooking, BAM:
I'm certain that people more wizardy with Emacs would scoff at this and come up with a much shorter set of key strokes to achieve the same thing. But hey, I'm distracted watching NCAA basketball at the moment. To quote Marge Simpson, who gives a doodle.
Yippee, now we have a nice .csv file with the kind of dates we want. Now let's put it into a database table.
Put some data into the database.
This part is pretty easy. All we have to do is create a table and tell Postgres what kind of columns there will be and what the type of data is for each column. Then, with an empty skeleton of a table, we can use use the nifty copy command to copy the data in from our .csv file:
ely@eschaton:~$ psql -d FamaFrenchAwesome! It worked! Now lets access it directly from Python!
psql (9.1.12)
Type "help" for help.
FamaFrench=# create table MonthlyFactors_USMarket (FactorDate date, ExcessMarket double precision, SMB double precision, HML double precision, RiskFreeRate double precision);
FamaFrench=# \copy MonthlyFactors_USMarket from '/home/ely/databases/raw_data/ff_cleaned_monthly.csv' delimiter ',' CSV;
FamaFrench=# select * from MonthlyFactors_USMarket limit 5;
factordate | excessmarket | smb | hml | riskfreerate
1926-07-30 | 2.95 | -2.5 | -2.67 | 0.22
1926-08-31 | 2.63 | -1.2 | 4.5 | 0.25
1926-09-30 | 0.38 | -1.33 | -0.3 | 0.23
1926-10-29 | -3.24 | -0.13 | 0.79 | 0.32
1926-11-30 | 2.54 | -0.24 | -0.39 | 0.31
(5 rows)
FamaFrench=# select count(*) from MonthlyFactors_USMarket;
(1 row)
Access PostgreSQL data from Python
For this, you will need to install unixodbc and the drivers for Postgres:
sudo apt-get install unixodbc unixodbc-dev odbc-postgresqlYou will also want to install pyodbc:
With conda (recommended):
conda install pyodbcor with pip
pip install pyodbcYou may choose to use sudo with these commands depending on how you have set up your Python environment.
Then we will need to put an entry into the odbc initialization file, /etc/odbcinst.ini, that looks like this:
[PostgreSQL]The driver and setup locations can vary. I suggest you go to /usr and just try:
Description = PostgreSQL ODBC driver (ANSI version)
Driver = /path/to/psqlodbca.so
Setup = /path/to/libodbcpsqlS.so
Database = FamaFrench
Debug = 0
CommLog = 1
UsageCount = 1
find . -name psqlodbca.soFor me, with 64-bit Ubuntu, they are found as follows:
ely@eschaton:/usr$ find . -name psqlodbca.soSo the path for me is: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/odbc/...
Then lastly place the following in /etc/odbc.ini.
[PostgreSQL]If you really want the gory details on all this .ini business, here's a good link: Unix ODBC Internals. But basically, think of the odbc.ini file as the shorthand notation for how you want to connect to things that are spelled out in the odbcinst.ini file.
Description = PostgreSQL
Driver = PostgreSQL
Trace = No
TraceFile = /tmp/psqlodbc.log
Servername = localhost
ReadOnly = Yes
Anyway, once all of the above is installed and configured, you can just pop open IPython and do the following:
import pyodbcwhich prints:
conn = pyodbc.connect("DRIVER={PostgreSQL};SERVER=localhost;DATABASE=FamaFrench;UID=ely;PWD=*****")
conn.execute("select * from MonthlyFactors_USMarket limit 10").fetchall()
[(datetime.date(1926, 7, 30), 2.95, -2.5, -2.67, 0.22),And if we wanted the data as a Pandas DataFrame:
(datetime.date(1926, 8, 31), 2.63, -1.2, 4.5, 0.25),
(datetime.date(1926, 9, 30), 0.38, -1.33, -0.3, 0.23),
(datetime.date(1926, 10, 29), -3.24, -0.13, 0.79, 0.32),
(datetime.date(1926, 11, 30), 2.54, -0.24, -0.39, 0.31),
(datetime.date(1926, 12, 31), 2.62, -0.22, -0.11, 0.28),
(datetime.date(1927, 1, 31), -0.11, -0.17, 4.86, 0.25),
(datetime.date(1927, 2, 28), 4.11, 0.37, 3.26, 0.26),
(datetime.date(1927, 3, 31), -0.15, -1.62, -2.62, 0.3),
(datetime.date(1927, 4, 29), 0.52, 0.25, 0.66, 0.25)]
df = pandas.DataFrame(map(tuple, conn.execute("select * from MonthlyFactors_USMarket").fetchall()), columns=["FactorDate", "ExcessMarket", "SMB", "HML", "RiskFreeRate"])Note that we needed to map the returned rows to tuple types in Python. The usual type will be pyodbc.Row, which is not recognized by the Pandas DataFrame constructor.
So what did the distribution of this SMB factor look like over all time?
If we regress the excess market on the 1-month lagged values of HMB and SML, are they good predictors? (I reformatted the output a bit to be more readable).
In [35]: pandas.ols(y=df.ExcessMarket, x=df.shift()[["SMB", "HML"]])Eh, they're ok. It's pretty hard to predict the overall US market with much accuracy.
----- Summary of RegressionAnalysis -----
Formula: Y ~ <SMB> + <HML> + <intercept>
Number of Observations: 1051
Number of Degrees of Freedom: 3
R-squared: 0.0069
Adj R-squared: 0.0050
Rmse: 5.4000
F-stat (2, 1048): 3.6279, p-value: 0.0269
Degrees of Freedom: model 2, resid 1048
-- Summary of Coefficients --
Variable Coef Std Err t-stat p-value -----------------------------------------------
intercept 0.5911 0.1679 3.52 0.0004
This sort of regression is not the common mode of use for this data. Instead, folks will normally load in a single stock's time-series of monthly excess returns and regress that on all three of the Fama/French factors. Then they will repeat this for all the stocks in their investable universe. Usually it will be a rolling regression, with a window size of somewhere between 12 and 60 monthly periods.
In the end, for each (stock, date) pair, you'll get coefficients of that stock (at that time) on the 3 factors. You can aggregate these by averaging over cross-sections at the same time, or averaging for single (or groups of) stocks over time. In the end, the goal is to save some coefficients on these factors that you believe will link today's observable data (this month's excess market return, SMB, and HML) with the returns each stock will realize over the next 1-month period.
Exercise for the reader
Use the Pandas io module to get some stock level data for AAPL over a few decades. Clean the data so the dates align with the ones fetched from our new database. Join those stock-level returns onto our database data, and perform one of these rolling regressions for AAPL to see what kind of coefficients AAPL exhibits in the Fama/French 3-factor model.


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Bottlenecks and Interface Materials; Part 2 – When TIMs Go Bad
'Bits stuck onto other bits', a succinct definition of an electronic product, if not a product that contains electronics. Soldering is the method of choice for getting the components to attach to the pcb, the layered board that contains the metallic traces connecting component pins to other component pins. Rivets, welds, screws or bolts for the chassis, some form of gluing or sticky adhesion for everything else. Nothing comes for free and the ease by which bits can be stuck to other bits is more than compensated for by the fact that such joins are sometimes unreliable and/or tend to offer a substantial barrier to heat flow, raising temperatures, effecting performance and reliability. There are a ream of TIM vendors out there and each of their sales pitches are as scary and worrying as they are genuinely concerning to those involved in product design and manufacture.
A product that has 100s, if not 1000s of parts offers certain, shall we say, 'challenges' when it comes to creating a 3D virtual prototype in a CAE simulation software. Whereas the mainstay of classic CFD simulations involve predicting the air flow over a handful of parts, applying CFD successfully to electronic thermal simulation requires a technology that can handle 100s of parts and 10s of 1000s of solid/solid and solid/fluid interfaces. Something FloTHERM has excelled at for over 22 years now.
With so much cluttered complexity and complex heat flow paths in an electronic product the use of simulation is highly valuable, especially as a tool to enable a designer to become a thermal design expert. I gave up trying to double guess the thermal performance of a system before a simulation was conducted ages ago. I would have thought that for this DVD application, when simulating the effects of a breakdown in the effectiveness of the TIM connecting the TO with the heat spreader I would have seen a nice large thermal bottleneck in the TIM. Some thermal expert I'm not…
I modelled the failed TIM by simply reducing its thermal conductivity. A more quantified approach (that likely would be done as part of a paid consultancy, not this vocational blog) might have employed T3Ster to measure the TIM thermal resistance itself, to be used as an input to this simulation. The FloTHERM simulation indicates that the junction temperature rise of the TO220 increases by 20% to over 100 degC. The next question should be why? and what can we do (could we have done) about it?
The bottleneck number, invented by us and implemented now in FloTHERM, is a method of indicating not where something is hot, but why. It pin points regions that are responsible for the increase in the temperature of the electronics. It's simply constructed as well, just the dot product of heat flux (how much heat is flowing) and temperature gradient (how difficult heat finds it to flow) vector properties at any and all points in the simulation. The result is a thermal bottleneck 'map'. Red is high bottleneck, blue is low.
When the TIM fails the heat, as it rushes through the path of (relatively) least resistance, ends up necking down through the screw that holds the tab of the TO to the heat spreader. Despite the screw being made of nice highly conducting metal (aren't they all?) there is so much heat, also bending in and out of the screw shaft, that it ends up being the biggest bottleneck in the system.
Should really point out the other bottlenecks in and around the package. The lead that's fused to the die flag carries some heat through a small cross section. The rest of the bottlenecks can be seen in the die attach and sure, some in the TIM itself.
So what could have been done to mitigate the increase in temperature when the TIM failed. Chose a better (read: more expensive) TIM is the obvious one. Chose a better package is another. Maybe design things so that two TOs were used maybe? Failing those lets look further afield to see where other bottlenecks exist.
'Iso surfaces' are useful post processing objects to visualise the distribution of a variable outputted as part of a simulation. They are surfaces at a constant value. Choosing a high bottleneck number and plotting the resulting bottleneck iso-surface we can see more than just what was on the center section plane plots used so far.
The bottlenecks where the spreader pins connect to the bottom plane of the PCB offer an opportunity to affect the thermal performance through a change in the design. Even when the TIM fails a lot of the heat still makes its way to the spreader. As pointed out in the previous blog, the spreader is no way big enough to transfer all the heat to the air, a lot of it ends up going through its pins into the PCB.
Beyond looking like a lopsided moustache or a pair of pony tails the heat flux lines show the bunching of the heat flow, coloured by bottleneck number, they indicate that surely doing something in that area will have an effect upstream back to the die. Exactly how much affect we'll see next time.
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Holman is 87 years old and was invited to attend a trip to Okinawa Japan in April for his efforts during World War II where he served in the Navy from 1943 until 1946.
The trip to Okinawa was canceled due to the earthquake and tsunami that made travel to Japan potentially hazardous. Instead, the group of five veterans, faculty and students of College of the Ozarks traveled to Pearl Harbor, where experiences and growth opportunities were shared.
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The college paid for all Holman's travel and entertainment expenses, including entertainment in Branson, Missouri, flight to and returning from Hawaii and hotel accommodations.
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Brandolyn Hoagland and John Dye, Holman's assigned students, said the trip to Pearl Harbor has had a great influence on their lives.
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A four-member team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has carried out the first round of inspections of Iran's second uranium enrichment facility on Sunday.
"The inspectors who arrived in Iran on Sunday visited the facility in central Iran. They are expected to visit the site again," said Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency.
Built inside a mountain near the holy city of Qom and called Fordo, the new facility, which reportedly is still under construction, is being described by officials as a back-up for Tehran's main uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. Officials say the back-up is being established in the wake of Israeli threats to attack Iran's nuclear infrastructure.
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Pop quiz time! Name the major league baseball player who was cut from his college team, an independent league team and his current pro team — and now is second in homers on that very same team?
Answer: Daniel Nava
Okay, did you get it right? You might not know the name Daniel Nava, but as you may have gleaned from that question, the same could be said of many of his coaches. Nava is an outfielder/first baseman with the Boston Red Sox. After last night's home run, he has three on the season and is hitting .467/.571/1.133.
It wasn't always this easy for Nava, but you have to give him credit. If there's one thing you can't say of him, it's that he gives up too easily, or gives up at all. For fun, let's compare Daniel Nava to someone who does give up, like… hmm… me!
1) After getting cut by his college team…
Nava: stayed on to wash the uniforms. He worked hard enough that he got another try-out, made the team and became one of their best players.
Kory: went to his dorm room and called his mom. Some reports say he was crying at the time but those reports are unverified.
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Nava: hooked on with the Chico Outlaws of the independent Northern League.
Kory: called his mom? This comparison is breaking down.
Before making the Outlaws, Nava tried out and didn't make it. Then he tried again, got signed and won the league MVP. The Red Sox then tried to sign him, but Nava was so valuable to the Outlaws that they refused to give him up unless the Red Sox gave them a dollar. The Red Sox said that they didn't have a crisp one, but would the Outlaws accept a crumpled dollar plus a few pinches of pocket lint? After much consultation, the Outlaws agreed.
Nava began his career in the Red Sox system in 2008 and hit right away. He didn't post an OPS below .900 until he reached Triple-A in 2010 and even then it was a still-healthy .830. Right about that time the Red Sox were going through one of their now annual injury-fests where the team decides, for fun, that all its best players should run into each other or, if they prefer, large stationary objects. Jacoby Ellsbury was out, along with a list of players too lengthy to mention here lest I exceed the word-count I don't have. It was under this cloud that Nava made his major league debut against the Phillies on FOX's game of the week. His first at-bat came against Joe Blanton with the bases loaded. On the first pitch, Nava did this. (For those of you who can't click that link, Nava homered. Shhh! Don't ruin it for the link-clickers.) It wasn't just a home run, it wasn't just a first pitch home run — it was a first pitch seen in the major leagues grand slam. Like Nava himself, those are pretty rare.
Two years later Daniel Nava was so important to the Red Sox organization that he had been designated for assignment, taken off the 40-man roster and, most recently, not invited to Spring Training. By now you realize all that just meant Nava was going to be better than ever. This season, while everyone paying attention to the Red Sox focused on Jackie Bradley, Jr. (including yours truly), Nava has snuck in and taken the spotlight from the promising rookie with his unexpected power, good batting eye, and decent defense.
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A Statesville man has been charged with raping a child after investigators say he sexually assaulted two teen girls.
De'Ante Lybrian Denny, 18, of Statesville, is charged with one count of statutory rape of a child, first degree statutory sexual offense and first degree burglary, according to a news release from the Iredell County Sheriff's Office.
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Golden Globes Snub 'Walking Dead' & 'Game of Thrones' This Year: Oh, Come On!
The nominees for the 70th annual Golden Globe Awards are in, and there are some wonderfully familiar names in the television category. Bryan Cranston for Breaking Bad, Claire Danes for Homeland, Maggie Smith for Downton Abbey, and Tina Fey for 30 Rock are just a few of the much-deserved nominations, and it's a nice surprise to see that Girls made it to the Best Comedy category.
Conspicuously absent, however, are two of television's most popular shows. The Walking Dead managed to pull in 15.2 million viewers for its midseason finale this year (even beating out the series finale of Lost back in 2010!), but the Hollywood Foreign Press Association must not be a fan. Also missing in action from the list of nominees -- and in my opinion, a FAR more grievous omission -- is Game of Thrones.
Not to be mean or anything, but Matt LeBlanc got a best performance nod over PETER DINKLAGE? I call shenanigans.
I'm not actually super shocked Walking Dead didn't make the list. It's an enormously fun show to watch, but I wouldn't say it's been overflowing with transcendent acting and the kind of scriptwriting that makes you want to buy the DVD box set just so you can dork out to the commentary. We're glued to the set because of the zombies and the constant threat of death, not necessarily because we can't wait to see what each character says and does. Major props to Andrew Lincoln for a particularly emotional scene this season, but overall, I'm not sure anyone on this show deserves a "best of anything" nod quite yet.
Well, aside from Most Disgusting & Bloodily Gruesome Special Effects, which isn't a Globes category. Sadly.
Game of Thrones, on the other hand, is a whole different ballgame. Where's Peter Dinklage, who plays the shit out of Tyrion Lannister each season? Did he already fulfill his allotted lifetime of awards, having scored a 2011 Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, and a 2012 Golden Globe for Best Actor in in a Supporting Role? I mean, come on, wasn't the second season of GoT exactly as worthy as the first, if not more so?
An editor from The Hollywood Reporter suspects that in general, the Hollywood Foreign Press isn't drawn to genre material:
They don't get much love from the HFPA for the same reason that they don't get much love from the Emmys, or why genre movies rarely get much love from the Oscars: Sci-fi or fantasy or horror are seen as childish things. And, unless they're rewarding a performance that 'elevates' the material, they'd just as soon keep 'high-art' on the pedestal. Which is, as anyone who watches these shows can attest, a short-sighted shame.
Celebuzz puts forth another theory -- that the Globes are more of a glitterati who's who party than an actual awards ceremony:
The HFPA has been accused for decades of choosing nominees who will make for a more glittering guest list of boldface names than a credible roster of merit-worthy artists. And who would you rather invite to your party, Dead's Andrew Lincoln (who?) or Mad Men's Jon Hamm?
I have no idea, but my guess is that this year there were just a lot of great dramas to choose from. A good problem for us viewers to have, but a bummer for our favorites which didn't make the cut.
On the other hand, that doesn't explain why Sons of Anarchy was snubbed yet again. Jimmy Smits, you were robbed.
What shows would you have nominated for the Globes this year? Are you surprised Game of Thrones and Walking Dead didn't make the list?
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All three of the shows noted above are really hard core. Well done, well played, and have a tremendous following- but some serious hard core themes. How can you put something like that up against, 30 Rock? I think they like to play it safe and not cater to 'dangerous' themes. :-(
If they did include shows like these, they'd HAVE to have the category, Most Disgusting & Bloodily Gruesome Special Effects! I couldn't even imagine trying to figure out who'd win- you claim Walking Dead, but seriously- there are some awesome scenes in the other shows that give it a real run for its money! lol
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Walking Dead should have been nominated than again this is the golden globes ...I dont really watch em so....
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tonyJanuary 13, 2013 at 10:32 PMI love Golden Globes & the fact that they recognize talent and Hard Work... However my only beef,concern,problem, issue with today's show 70th annual, is why would the snub and or Ignore "THE WALKING DEAD" which is completely a show with jusT as Good story,writing and acting as there is in "HOMELAND" not to mention Special Effects at least! what up guys ... what don't gimmie crap about politically correct excuses , we know about how sensitive and to have something or a show mean something to the Americans is, but hey give credit were credit is due and "THE WALKING DEAD" is just as worthy if not better than "Homeland" PERIOD.
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linda garrisMarch 26, 2013 at 5:49 PMAgree about walking dead. More viewers than any of the pc bs on tv. Huge fan base. We dont like golden globes anyway. Its a lovefest for who's who. Giving cheadle best actor for say f...100x a show and fing everyone. Bs. Lincoln and the whole crew do a much better job Look at ncis most watched show in the world. Never nominated for anything. Its all about the pc crowd. Must give one gay one black etc. To keep everyone happy. Well howvabt steven yeun - he's asian. Doesnt that count?lol idc. Its like peoples choice. We get to vote from the people they decide. Breaking dawn 2 would have gotten awards but we werent allowed to vote. U have to be an outspoken political ass and then hollywood lovesvu. Keep ur viewsvto urself or dare to deviate and u get snubbed. But not byvthe viewers. We dont need hollywood to tell us what to watch. Love TWD wish it had longer seasons. Screw u hollywood linda philly
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KimDecember 12, 2013 at 1:22 PMI have to disagree with the acting chops in the cast of TWD. David Morrissey, aka, "The Governor" I thought was absolutely brilliant as the character you love to hate. He, if anyone, absolutely should have received a nom.
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JoshuaDecember 12, 2013 at 7:30 PMReally linda sharps , you really shouldnt be giving a opinion about the walking dead if you're not a fan and if you think we are glued to the screen because of zombies then you really don't know anything about the shows actors and how they have changed through out the seasons. For a horor show this show has proved to be one of the most watched shows in america, and will continue to be. Ratings dont lie