Annuities are cool. They're fixed payments over a period of time. If you're living in England, there's another financial product called a consol that is an annuity that pays out in perpetuity. Amazing. Below are simplified examples of how to calculate present value and future value for annuities. I wasn't
Suppose you wanted to calculate the percentage of men that weigh inbetween 140 and 170 lbs. This is possible if you carry a few data points such as the average weight of men (mean), the standard deviation, and the specific weight you want to measure (data point). Step 0 -
Similar to my previous article, here are some formulas that can help you estimate how much you need to save for your kid's college tuition or what your monthly mortgage payment will look like if you buy that house. Loans class Loan { payments(PV, IR, NP){ var PMT = (PV * IR)
How to calculate Present and Future value using ES6.
Here's how to encrypt a USB thumbdrive with HSF+ (Journaled) using Disk Utility and Terminal. Warning This will teach you how to encrypt your drive as HFS+ (Journaled). Do not follow these steps if you want to encrypt using APFS. Step 1 - Insert a USB drive and Open up
Shiny is a package within R that helps data scientists and developers create interactive web applications. Are you a data scientist who knows R but can't figure out how React, Angular, or Vue JS? Then this is the framework for you. How does Shiny Work? Shiny borrows from the reactive
What is ggplot2 and why is it the best open source graphical library for R.
Setting Up Your Environment Before you can start using R, you'll need to install it. Here's how to install R on a Mac using Homebrew Dataframes What makes R really powerful is this concept of Dataframes. Dataframes the objects used to represent tables including observations and variables (aka rows and
Sometimes you need to self-host your own Podcast files and feed. Here's how using Amazon Web Services.