The Big R-Book

Foreword

This book brings together skills and knowledge that can help to boost your career. It is an excellent tool for people working as database manager, data scientist, quant, modeller, statistician, analyst and more, who are knowledgeable about certain topics, but want to widen their horizon and understand what the others in this list do. A wider understanding means that we can do our job better and eventually open doors to new or enhanced careers.

The student who graduated froma science, technology, engineering ormathematics or similar program will find that this book helps to make a successful step from the academic world into a any private or governmental company.

This book uses the popular (and free) software R as leitmotif to build up essential programming proficiency, understand databases, collect data, wrangle data, buildmodels and select models froma suit of possibilities such linear regression, logistic regression, neural networks, decision trees, multi criteria decision models, etc. and ultimately evaluate a model and report on it.

We will go the extra mile by explaining some essentials of accounting in order to build up to pricing of assets such as bonds, equities and options. This helps to deepen the understanding how a company functions, is useful to bemore result oriented in a private company, helps for one's own investments, and provides a good example of the theories mentioned before. We also spend time on the presentation of results and we use R to generate ...