By this point, you have finished understanding the main principles of finance tracking, created a simple form to capture your expenses on the go and generated a spreadsheet to store all your data. It’s time to create a beautiful dashboard to visualise your financial situation in a glimpse. If you did not know already, a dashboard is a type of graphical […]
📊 Create Your Personal Finance System: Build Your Spending Dashboard and Forget About Spreadsheets – Part 2
💰 Personal Finance System: A Little Guide to Automatise Your Budget – Part 1
One of the biggest struggles for people, both young and old, is managing their money correctly: 66% of millennials don’t feel on track when it comes to saving for retirement, according to a 2019 TD Ameritrade report, and before the pandemic, households struggled to save more than 8% of their income. Despite the growing wealth available to the population, it’s still not easy […]
🕸 How to Create a Weighted Network From a List of Elements Sharing an Attribute With R
Image source: Derrible, S. (2012). Network centrality of metro systems. PloS one, 7(7), e40575. Network analysis is a branch of data science gaining a lot of attention from outside, mainly because many aspects of our life can be described using networks, such as fifteenth Century Florentine Marriages, friendships in sports clubs, viral marketing strategies, metro connections, et cetera. If you […]
💸 Is Money the Best Way to Boost Innovation? – Part 2
Continuing from part 1 The Second Piece of Evidence An external audience may suggest that the previous research is outdated, especially considering that innovation per se is a complex and dynamic process, so it may be helpful to go through another piece of literature briefly. In 2014 Bruce Curran and Scott Walsworth took seven years of data representing Canadian private sector […]
🤑 Is Money the Best Way to Boost Innovation? – Part 1
What’s different between Apple and your local market? What does it take for an organisation to be “innovative”? Is money the only factor causing innovation in a company? In 2019, according to the PatentSight Innovation Ranking, 38 of the most innovative companies in the US are based in the US, 21 in China and 15 in Europe. With China and […]