Part 1: Before I Knew What Data Science Was When I graduated from Penn State in 2007, I spent the first couple of years as a mechanical engineer learning all there was to know about engineering valves. Eventually, I landed at a company called Bonney ...

The ongoing debate recently in Turkey is that the Turkish government has suppressed US Dollar/Turkish Lira exchange rates (USD/TRY) to prevent economic turmoil. Many authorities in the business, especially exporters, think that the USD/TRY parity should be in the range of 24-25 Turkish Lira. To look through ...

Introduction In the analytics realm whether some like it or not, Excel is huge and maybe King. This is due to the fact of the shear volume of people using it. Microsoft has positioned Excel well in this situation, but, that does not mean we cann...

1. Classification using tidymodels I will walk through a classification problem from importing the data, cleaning, exploring, fitting, choosing a model, and finalizing the model. I wanted to create a project that could serve as a template for oth...

This post presents a real highlight: We will build and backtest a quantitative trading strategy in R with the help of OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4! If you want to get a glimpse into the future of trading system development, read on! On this blog, I already provided a template to build ...

As I’ve started working on more complicated machine learning projects, I’ve leaned into the tidymodels approach. Tidymodels is a highly modular approach, and I felt it reduced the number of errors, especially when evaluating many machine models an...

sp evolution status Splitting R_LIBS ASDAR examples using sf or terra Which sf or terra methods or functions match retiring methods or functions? Conserving sp workflows "SpatVector" coercion "sf" "Spati...

Passive scalar turbulence is the study of how a scalar quantity, such as temperature or salinity, is transported by an incompressible fluid. This process is modeled by the advection diffusion equation \[\begin{equation} \partial_tg_t + u_t\cdot\nabl...

It is carnival time again as IPL 2023 is underway!! The new GooglyPlusPlus now includes AI/ML models for computing ball-by-ball Win Probability of matches and each individual player’s Win Probability Contribution (WPC). GooglyPlusPlus uses 2 ML models Besides, as before, GooglyPlusPlus will also include the usual near real-time analytics with ...

I am getting tired of these little pictorial numerical puzzles with the four equations, like one where three chickens equals 60, one chicken plus two plates of two eggs per plate equals 26, and so on, until the final equation is to evaluate some ma...

SatRdays London is fast approaching, and we have a couple of exciting announcements to share with you! Full program available now The full list of speakers and their abstracts can now be found in ...

Dr. Maria Prokofieva of the Business Analytics and R Business User Group, Melbourne, recently talked to the R Consortium about the growing use of R and Data Science in Australia.... The post Adoption of R by Actuaries Community in Melbourne appeared first on R Consortium.

BRVM Introduction This R package provides a user-friendly interface for accessing data from the {BRVM}, which is a regional stock exchange serving multiple West African countries. With this package, users can easily retrieve historical stoc...