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Category Archives: Computing Notes

Notes about computing, software, and hardware

T+n time series analysis

This isn’t stock advice, it’s a data and math project. AAPL is interesting (not investing advice!) from a data perspective. Part of my big data project was the creation of a tool to analyze every symbol regressed on every other symbol for numerous lags. In addition to revealing the vendor’s mangling of data for unknown [...]

Stata reference material

Linear regression analysis using Stata contains a look at Stata output for regression. There is also an excellent document on Regression Analysis | Stata annotated output at this link. There is an excellent document on Basic Data Analysis and Manipulation at this link. Yt−1 is the first lag of Yt (Chapter 10, p. 1).

Rudimentary versioning system

Some time ago, Python 2 was the default language for use with Linux and Gnome 3. A set of extensions for Gnome, called Nautilus Python existed which allowed one to create customized right click menus. One of these was called “Historical Copy” and it created a lovely copy of the file with a timestamp inserted [...]

Persistent Notification in Gnome 3

This is a GTK notification in Linux that remains on screen until it is clicked. #!/usr/bin/python3 import gi gi.require_version(‘Notify’, ’0.7′) from gi.repository import Notify gi.require_version(‘Gtk’, ’3.0′) Notify.init("Hello world") Hello = Notify.Notification.new("Hello world – the heading", "This is an example notification.", "dialog-information") # https://www.devdungeon.com/content/desktop-notifications-linux-python Hello.set_urgency(2) # Highest priority Hello.show() Last updated and tested 12 December 2020 [...]

Labeling variables in R

This great procedure makes it easy to remember what variables are related to in R. One of the troubles with exploratory data analysis is that when one has a lot of variables it can be confusing what the variable was created for originally.  Certainly code comments can help but that makes the files larger and [...]

My Favorite Function

My favorite function of all time is varsoc in Stata.  That’s saying a lot because I have been working with computers for decades and have written software in several languages, used many different types of administrative software tool sets, and owned a lot of books with code in them.  Varsoc regresses one variable, y, upon another variable, [...]

Synchronize time on CentOS 6

This will start the time service and synchronize the clocks on CentOS 6. yum install ntp chkconfig ntpd on ntpdate pool.ntp.org /etc/init.d/ntpd start