Reproducible Finance with R - Code Flows and Shiny Apps for Portfolio Analysis Regenstein Jr. Jonathan K.Paperback / softback

Reproducible Finance with R: Code Flows and Shiny Apps for Portfolio Analysis is a unique introduction to data science for investment management that explores the three major R/finance coding paradigms, emphasizes data visualization, and explains how to build a cohesive suite of functioning Shiny applications. The ideal reader works in finance or wants to work in finance and has a desire to learn R code and Shiny through simple, yet practical real-world examples.The book begins with the first step in data science: importing and wrangling data, which in the investment context means importing asset prices, converting to returns, and constructing a portfolio. The full source code, asset price data and live Shiny applications are available at reproduciblefinance.com.

The next section covers risk and tackles descriptive statistics such as standard deviation, skewness,