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Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. [This article was first published on R Views, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. In a previous post, we explored IPOs and IPO returns by sector and year since 2004. Today, let’s investigate how portfolios formed with those IPOs have performed. We will need to grab the price histories of the tickers, then form portfolios, then calculate their performance, and then rank those performances in some ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R | datawookie. [This article was first published on R | datawookie, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. The Durban EDGE (Economic Development and Growth in eThekwini) DataQuest was held at UKZN (Westville Campus) on 13 November 2019. Participants were tasked with creating something interesting and useful with the civic data on the new Durban EDGE Open Data Portal developed by Open Data Durban. These datasets were available: ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: kjytay. When plotting an lm object in R, one typically sees a 2 by 2 panel of diagnostic plots, much like the one below: set.seed(1) x This link has an excellent explanation of each of these 4 plots, and I highly recommend giving it a read. Most R users are familiar with these 4 plots. But did you know that the plot() function for lm objects can actually give you 6 plots? It says so right in the documentation: We can specify which of the 6 plots we want when calling this function using the which option ... Read More

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Data governance tools used to occupy a niche in an organization’s tech stack, but those days are gone.The rise of data-driven business and the complexities that come with it ushered in a soft mandate for data governance and data governance tools. Data governance refers to the strategic and ongoing efforts by an organization to ensure that data is discoverable and its quality is good. It is also used to make data more easily understood and secure. The technology that makes end-to-end data governance possible includes data cataloging, data literacy, business ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Michael Griebe. Week 11 Gold Mining and Fantasy Football Projection Roundup now available. The post Gold-Mining Week 11 (2019) appeared first on Fantasy Football Analytics. Related If you got this far, why not subscribe for updates from the site? Choose your flavor: e-mail, twitter, RSS, or facebook ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; Known for its Himalayan mountains — including Mt Everest — and the streets of Kathmandu, there’s plenty to explore in Nepal. You’ll most likely go online at some point, though, so stay safe with one of our best VPN for Nepal picks. Read on to find out why you should use a VPN and what features it should have for the best experience. Your best bet for Nepal is ExpressVPN, but there are some other solid choices, too.  The number of internet users in Nepal is growing. Only around nine percent of the population used ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Clint Wheelock. The artificial intelligence (AI) market is entering a dynamic phase of growth where adoption in the enterprise sector continues unabated, but there are questions emerging within research and academic circles about whether the technologies fueling the AI revolution, particularly deep learning, might be hitting a bottleneck. The recent controversy surrounding Facebook and data privacy, AI safety and explainability with Uber’s self-driving car fatality, or questions about authenticity and the power of generative algorithms to create fake images and video, are all issues that highlight the challenges facing AI in 2018.Despite these challenges, according ... Read More

Feed: Feed | Tractica. Author: Clint Wheelock. While enterprise markets have made use of professional-grade virtual reality (VR) technology for some time, the recent debut of consumer-grade VR head-mounted displays (HMDs) from companies like Facebook/Oculus, HTC, and Samsung has raised the profile of VR immeasurably and, more importantly, sparked the potential for enterprise VR use cases leveraging consumer-grade VR solutions. In addition to the availability of low-cost consumer-grade VR solutions, the adoption of VR among enterprises is motivated by the opportunity for increased productivity, improved results, and efficiency, through the greater level of immersion that VR applications offer compared to ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Data Imaginist. [This article was first published on Data Imaginist, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. I’m happy to announce that farver 2.0 has landed on CRAN. This is a big releasecomprising of a rewrite of much of the internals along with a range of newfunctions and improvements. Read on to find out what this is all about. The case for farver The first version of farver really ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Thomas Brand. Our purpose is to write a program to automatically update a quarterly fiscal database for the Euro Area. The main difficulty of this exercise is to build long series that go as far as the 1980’s. We use two sources to build the database: the historical database developed in Paredes et al. (2014), which stops in 2013, and the latest Eurostat data. Throughout this article, we explain how we chained each series of PPP with the Eurostat data. Both databases are taken without any seasonal adjustment. At the end of the post, chained data series are seasonally ... Read More