September 2020

SQL Databases for Students and Educators

September 17, 2020 | Pachá

I’ve created the site db-edu.pacha.dev to offer free access to SQL databases. Publicly accessible databases often impose query limits or require registration. Even when I maintain public and limit-free APIs, I never wanted to host a public database ... [Read more...]

Sequential satisficing

September 17, 2020 | R on OSM

In our last post, we ran simulations on our 1,000 randomly generated return scenarios to compare the average and risk-adjusted return for satisfactory, naive, and mean-variance optimized (MVO) maximum return and maximum Sharpe ratio portfolios.1 We ...
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Sequential satisficing

September 17, 2020 | R on OSM

In our last post, we ran simulations on our 1,000 randomly generated return scenarios to compare the average and risk-adjusted return for satisfactory, naive, and mean-variance optimized (MVO) maximum return and maximum Sharpe ratio portfolios.1 We ...
[Read more...]

Sequential satisficing

September 17, 2020 | R on OSM

In our last post, we ran simulations on our 1,000 randomly generated return scenarios to compare the average and risk-adjusted return for satisfactory, naive, and mean-variance optimized (MVO) maximum return and maximum Sharpe ratio portfolios.1 We ...
[Read more...]

A Frosty Deal?

September 17, 2020 | R | Quantum Jitter

Reading news articles on the will-they-won’t-they post-Brexit trade negotiations with the EU sees days of optimism jarred by days of gloom. Do negative news articles, when one wants a positive outcome, leave a deeper impression? I wondered if I coul...
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How and When to Use For Loops

September 16, 2020 |

What is a for loop? A for loop is a process that lets you automate a portion of your code by repeating a sequence of instructions a specified number of times. There are a couple of different types of loops (while, for, repeat) and they all have the sam... [Read more...]

What’s new in DALEX and DALEXtra

September 16, 2020 | Szymon Maksymiuk

The DALEX package version 2.0 was released on CRAN on September the 4th, followed by the DALEXtra release. At first, I’d like to assure You, we did our best to maintain backward compatibility. I am here to cover major changes and at the same time prese...
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How to Scrape Word Documents with R

September 15, 2020 | Business Science

This article is part of a R-Tips Weekly, a weekly video tutorial that shows you step-by-step how to do common R coding tasks. Today we discuss an awesome skill for automating data collection from word documents: Get the Code: GitHub Link Video T...
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Some Thoughts on R / Medicine 2020

September 15, 2020 | R Views

The third annual R / Medicine Conference was held online this year from August 27th to August 29th and was an unqualified success. The last minute pivot from small, in-person conference, which was to be held onsite at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, CHOP, to a virtual event turned out ... [Read more...]
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