Independence – Never worry about the provider going offline, or charging once you’re hooked. Security – Run on your intranet, so customer information stays within the firewall.

I recently downloaded the latest version of R Studio and noticed that their import dataset functionality had changed significantly. I had previously written about this HERE and wanted to provide an update for the current version of RStudio.

One of the most important features we need to be able to do in R is import existing data, whether it be .txt files, .csv files, or even .xls (Excel files). If we can’t import data into R, then we can’t do anything. Okay let’s get started.

Spending over 12 years in sales across multiple industries has certainly offered its fair share of wins and losses throughout my career.

Earlier this month, LinkedIn updated with a new design. If it’s been a couple of weeks since you’ve logged on, here’s what’s new. Beyond the design, which includes a more streamlined navigation bar, LinkedIn added some useful features. A few of them include:

The term statistical arbitrage (stat-arb) encompasses a wide variety of investment strategies that typically aim to exploit a statistical equilibrium relationship between two or more securities.

Portfolio Theory Sources of Risk  http://youtu.be/d1uXLNxJg68 Beta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muPDIGi4QyY CAPM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AloZBivjfg Security Market Line http://youtu.be/R3oAOCR2S5I Components of Risk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ROK7ov20no&feature=youtu.

Investors all of a sudden love BDCs again, which is a red flag. Let us face the harsh truth: Shares of Business Development Company Main Street Capital Corp. (NYSE:MAIN) are priced for perfection.

In a previous post, I described the principles of my basic reproducible data analysis workflow. Today, let’s be more practical and see how to implement it. Be noted that it is a basic workflow.

Never miss an ex-dividend date with this automated real-time dividend calendar. Google Finance data is exported to Excel and users can use a handy calendar in Excel to monitor upcoming dividend information.