I am really enjoying Uefa Euro 2016 Footbal Competition, even because our national team has done pretty well so far. That’s why after browsing for a while statistics section of official EURO 2016 website I decided to do some analysis on the data they share ( as at the 21th of June).
Just to be clear from the beginning: we are not talking of anything too rigourus, but just about some interesting questions with related answers gathered mainly through data visualisation.
The last Report to the Nation published by ACFE, stated that on average, fraud accounts for nearly the 5% of companies revenues.
on average, fraud accounts for nearly the 5% of companies revenues
Projecting this number for the whole world GDP, it results that the “fraud-country” produces something like a GDP 3 times greater than the Canadian GDP.
Around 1938 Frank Benford, a physicist at the General Electrics research laboratories, observed that logarithmic tables were more worn within first pages: was this casual or due to an actual prevalence of numbers near 1 as first digits?
This simple tutorial will show you how to download data into an excel spreadsheet, creating a web query.
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as part of the** excel functions in R,** I have developed this custom function, reproducing the excel right() function in th R language. Feel free to copy and use it.
[code language=“r”] right = function (string, char){ substr(string,nchar(string)-(char-1),nchar(string))} [/code]
you can find other function in the Excel functions in R post.
as part of the excel functions in R, I have developed this custom function, emulating the excel left() function in th R language. Feel free to copy and use it.
you can find other function in the** Excel functions in R post**.
