R informator 198 How Happy is Your Country? — Happy Planet Index Visualized

Mara Averick is a non-profit data nerd, NBA stats junkie, and most recently, tidyverse developer advocate at RStudio. She is the voice behind two very popular Twitter accounts, @dataandme and @batpigandme. Mara and I discussed sports analytics, how attending a cool conference can change the approach to your career, and how she uses Twitter as a mechanism for self-imposed...Read more »

The Happy Planet Index (HPI) is an index of human well-being and environmental impact that was introduced by NEF, a UK-based economic think tank promoting social, economic and environmental...Read more »

By Gabriel Vasconcelos Overview When working with time-series forecasting we often have to choose between a few potential models and the best way is to test each model in...Read more »

In a previous post, we reviewed how to import daily prices, build a portfolio, and calculate portfolio returns. Today, we will visualize the returns of our individual assets that...Read more »

Modern slot machines (fruit machine, pokies, or whatever those electronic gambling devices are called in your part of the world) are designed to be addictive. They're also usually quite...Read more »

Report Generation is a very important part in any Organization’s Business Intelligence and Analytics Division. The ability to create automated reports out of the given data is one of...Read more »

The tenth (!!) annual annual R/Finance conference will take in Chicago on the UIC campus on June 1 and 2, 2018. Please see the call for papers below (or...Read more »

Nearly 4 years ago I wrote on this blog about an R package solr for working with the database Solr. Since then we’ve created a refresh of that package...Read more »