Publications by R on Redwall Analytics

Evaluating American Funds Portfolio Over Three Market Cycles

11.06.2020

Introduction Active funds have done poorly over the last ten years, and in most cases, struggled to justify their fees. A growing list of commentators appropriately advocate for index funds, although sometimes go a little beyond what we believe to be fairly representing the facts. The inspiration for this article is this post by Asset Builder blo...

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Using drake for ETL and building Shiny app for 900k CT real estate sales

21.07.2020

# R Libraries for this blogdown post # See Github for libraries used in drake project library(data.table) library(DT) knitr::opts_chunk$set( fig.width = 15, fig.height = 8, out.width = '100%') Introduction The State of Connecticut requires each of its 169 municipalities to report real estate sales used in the assessment process. All repor...

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Learning SQL and Exploring XBRL with secdatabase.com – Part 1

09.09.2020

# Libraries packages <- c("data.table", "DBI", "reticulate", "keyring", "RAthena" ) if (length(setdiff(packages,rownames(installed.packages()))) > 0) { install.packages(setdiff(packages, rownames(installed.packages()))) } invisible(lapply(packages, library, character.only = TRUE)) knitr::opts_chunk$set( comment = N...

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Exploring 30 years of local CT weather history with R

21.09.2020

# Libraries packages <- c("data.table", "ggplot2", "stringr", "skimr", "janitor", "glue" ) if (length(setdiff(packages,rownames(installed.packages()))) > 0) { install.packages(setdiff(packages, rownames(installed.packages()))) } invisible(lapply(packages, library, character.only = TRUE)) knitr::opts_chunk$set( ...

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Building a career changer resume with R {vitae} package

06.10.2020

# Libraries packages <- c("vitae", "tibble", "spelling" ) if (length(setdiff(packages, rownames(installed.packages()))) > 0) { install.packages(setdiff(packages, rownames(installed.packages()))) } invisible(lapply(packages, library, character.only = TRUE)) knitr::opts_chunk$set( comment = NA, fig.width = 12, fig.height =...

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Finding the Dimensions of `secdatabase.com` from 2010-2020 – Part 2

11.10.2020

Source: xbrl.org Introduction This is part 2 of a 3-part series on extracting XBRL data from secdatabase.com. In Learning SQL and Exploring XBRL with secdatabase.com – Part 1, we showed how to set up the database connection from RStudio. In this post, we will discuss the basics of XBRL and secdatabase.com’s SQL representation of it. We will ...

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Tapping Yelp data with Apache Drill from Mac using {sergeant}

26.10.2020

Click to see package details # Libraries packages <- c("tidyverse", "sergeant", "tictoc" ) if (length(setdiff(packages,rownames(installed.packages()))) > 0) { install.packages(setdiff(packages, rownames(installed.packages()))) } invisible(lapply(packages, library, character.only = TRUE)) knitr::opts_chunk$set( comment = NA...

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In Search of a Better Home Price Prediction in Greenwich, CT – Part 1

09.12.2020

Figure 1: Average Single Family Homes in Towns of Connecticut 1999-2018 Introduction Though losing ground in recent years, Connecticut has long had some of the highest average incomes and home prices in the country. Within the State, some towns have had significantly higher selling prices than others (shown in chart above). In this series, we wi...

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Introducing the Redwall IRS SOI Tax Dashboard

02.02.2021

Introduction The IRS SOI Tax Statistics is a fabulous seemingly undiscovered data set, which should be frequently referenced in any discussion about income and taxes. We often see median income represented by Census data, but have always been skeptical that most people know their exact income in any given year or would report it according to a un...

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Using Census of Govts to Show that if You Know R, You Know SQL

05.03.2021

The Government Finance Database Viewed in RStudio Connections Pane Introduction We have been exploring Willamette University Government Finance Database, a cleaned up and aggregated version of 50 years of annual Census of Governments. For those interested in learning more, please see Willamette’s paper The Government Finance Database: A Common...

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