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Fitting Bayesian structural time series with the bsts R package

The Unofficial Google Data Science Blog

Many of these models are standard, and can be fit using a variety of tools, such as the StructTS function distributed with base R or one of several R packages for fitting these models (with the dlm package (Petris 2010, Petris, Petrone, and Campagnoli 2009) deserving special mention).

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Fact-based Decision-making

Peter James Thomas

The above is a somewhat simple metric, in a section of Using historical data to justify BI investments – Part I , I cover some actual Insurance industry metrics that build on each other and are a little more convoluted. Especially for all Business Analytics professionals out there (2009). [7]. This can be problematic.

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Blockchain: The Fall of Traditional Centralized Systems in Business & Finance

Smart Data Collective

In the year 2009, a man under the alias of Satoshi Nakamoto invented the first digital currency called bitcoin and initiated the use of blockchains. This is intriguing as the world faces uncertainty from Covid-19, but crypto is not the only investment bringing massive returns to investors.

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