This function reads text data from file in specificied encoding. There are more than 100k tweets in the dataset. Initially we will sample 10k tweets to build our model.

“I walk a lonely street.” Written in 1955, those five haunting words were all one man left of himself before leaping to his death from his hotel room window.

I previously talked about why now is not a good time to be a contrarian. Given the fact that the S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) has risen by 3% since then, I would say that it wasn’t too good of a time indeed. Of course, nothing is certain in the investment world.

This post will introduce component conditional value at risk mechanics found in PerformanceAnalytics from a paper written by Brian Peterson, Kris Boudt, and Peter Carl.

This post will introduce component value at risk mechanics found in PerformanceAnalytics from a paper written by Brian Peterson, Kris Boudt, and Peter Carl. This is a mechanism that is an easy-to-call mechanism for computing component expected shortfall in asset returns as they apply to a portfolio.

In this post I present my third experiment with R-Bridge. The plotting toolbox is a plug-in for ArcGIS 10.3.x that allows the creation of beautiful and informative plot, with ggplot2, directly from the ESRI ArcGIS console. As always I not only provide the toolbox but also a dataset to try it out.

By Nick Kalivas, Senior Equity Product Strategist. Posted on Expert Investment Views: Invesco US Blog. The past few months have been good for utility stocks. Year-to-date through June 27, the S&P 500 Utilities Sector Index has risen nearly 20%, compared with a loss of 1.06% for the S&P 500 Index.

There’s no shortcut to writing a great story. However, there are guidelines that can help get you started if you’ve never done it before. This chart compiles several different forms of advice for beginners into one handy reference.

It’s a common misconception that the only way to sleep is to stay in bed for 7-8 straight hours until you’re done. If you have trouble staying asleep for that long, try sleeping twice at night. As sleep researchers Dr. Melinda Jackson and Dr.

The world has had its fair share of virus outbreaks in the past few years: first Ebola and now Zika. But not many people are familiar with the Zika virus. So what is it and what steps can you take to protect yourself?