By Yuri Fonseca
In the previous post about pricing optimization (link here), we discussed a little about linear demand and how to estimate optimal prices in that case. In this post we are going to compare three different types of demand models for homogeneous products and how to find optimal prices for each one of them.
Tuning a Boosting algorithm for the first time may be a very confusing task. There are so many parameters to choose and they all have different behaviour on the results. Also, the best choice may depends on the data. Every time I get a new dataset I learn something new. A good understanding of classification and regression trees (CART) is also helpful because we will be boosting trees, you can start here if you have no idea of what a CART is.
By Gabriel Vasconcelos
There are several ways to do portfolio optimization out there, each with its advantages and disadvantages. We already discussed some techniques here. Today I am going to show another method to perform portfolio optimization that works very well in large datasets because it produces very robust weights, which results in a good out-of-sample performance. This technique is called Parametric Portfolio Policies (PPP) and it was proposed by Brandt, Santa-Clara and Valkanov in 2009 (click here to read the full article).
By Gabriel Vasconcelos
When dealing with forecasting models there is an issue that generates a lot of confusion, which is the difference between direct and recursive forecasts. I believe most people are more used to recursive forecasts because they are the first we learn when studying ARIMA models.
By Gabriel Vasconcelos
So I decided to have a quick look at the tuber package to extract YouTube data in R. My cousin is a singer (a hell of a good one) and he has a YouTube channel (dan vasc), which I strongly recommend, where he posts his covers. I will focus my analysis on his channel. The tuber package is very friendly and it downloads YouTube statistics on comments, views, likes and more straight to R using the YouTube API.
Today, November 29, 2017 was a crazy day in the Bitcoin world and the craziness is still going on as I write this post. The price range was of thousands of Dollars in a few hours. Bitcoins were today the main topic in all discussion groups I participate. Some people believe we are in the middle of a giant bubble and are very skeptical about Bitcoins intrinsic value and other people believe cryptocurrencies are the future and are already counting on a price of hundreds of thousands of dollars in a few years. I am no expert and I have no idea which group is right, but I hope it is the second because I really like the Bitcoin idea as the money of the future.
When working with time-series forecasting we often have to choose between a few potential models and the best way is to test each model in pseudo-out-of-sample estimations. In other words, we simulate a forecasting situation where we drop some data from the estimation sample to see how each model perform.
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