Chapter 4. Big Data – Advanced Analytics
In this chapter, we will deal with one of the biggest challenges of high-performance financial analytics and data management; that is, how to handle large datasets efficiently and flawlessly in R.
Our main objective is to give a practical introduction on how to access and manage large datasets in R. This chapter does not focus on any particular financial theorem, but it aims to give practical, hands-on examples to researchers and professionals on how to implement computationally - intensive analyses and models that leverage large datasets in the R environment.
In the first part of this chapter, we explained how to access data directly for multiple open sources. R offers various tools and options to load data ...
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