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Why market interest rates fall every day while the U.S. Federal Reserve waits and why Bitcoin prices continue to rise

When an expectation for future is shared, market reflects it immediatelyUS Fed hints to lower interest rates in March, which is already reflected in pricesBitcoin prices also rely on people’s belief on speculative demands
The US Fed determines the base interest rate approximately once every 1.5 months, eight times a year. There is no reason for …

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The process of turning web novels into webtoons and data science

Web novel to Webtoon conversion is not only based on ‘profitability’If the novel author is endowed with money or bargaining power, ‘Webtoonization’ may be nothing more than a marketting tool for the web novel.Data science modeling based on market variables unable to grab such cases
A student in SIAI’s MBA AI/BigData progam, struggling with her thesis, …

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Is online degree inferior to offlinie degree?

Not the quality of teaching, but the way it operatesEasier admission and graduation bar applied to online degreesStudies show that higher quality attracts more passion from students
Although much of the prejudice against online education courses has disappeared during the COVID-19 period, there is still a strong prejudice that online education is of lower quality than …

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Did Hongdae’s hip culture attract young people? Or did young people create ‘Hongdae style’?

The relationship between a commercial district and the concentration of consumers in a specific generation mostly is not by causal effectSimultaneity oftern requires instrumental variablesReal cases also end up with mis-specification due to endogeneity
When working on data science-related projects, causality errors are common issues. There are quite a few cases where the variable thought to …

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High accuracy with ‘Yes/No’ isn’t always the best model

With high variance, 0/1 hardly yields a decent model, let alone with new set of dataWhat is known as ‘interpretable’ AI is no more than basic statistics’AI’=’Advanced’=’Perfect’ is nothing more than mis-perception, if not myth
5 years ago. Just not long after an introduction of simple ‘artificial intelligence’ learning material that uses data related to residential …

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SNS heavy users have lower income?

One-variable analysis can lead to big errors, so you must always understand complex relationships between various variables. Data science is a model research project that finds complex relationships between various variables. Obsessing with one variable is a past way of thinking, and you need to improve your way of thinking in line with the era …