[EN] The sovereign debt literature emphasizes the possibility of avoiding a selffulfilling default crisis if markets anticipate the central bank to act as the lender of last resort. Motivated by the events of summer 2012 ...

[EN] This article proposes a field study on the applications and impacts of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) in the biopharmaceutical sector, based on an initial literature review. The world is facing a new industrial revolution that ...

[EN] Selection bias is the bias introduced by the non random selection of data, it leads to question whether the sample obtained is representative of the target population. Generally there are different types of selection ...

[EN] The increasing availability of open data resources provides opportunities for research and data science. It is necessary to develope tools that take advantage of the full potential of new information resources. In ...

[EN] An algorithm to fit regression models aimed at predicted the average responses beyond a conditional quantile level is presented. This procedure is implemented in a case study of insured drivers covering almost 10,000. ...

[EN] The emergence and acceptance of social media have become a crucial aspect of daily lives in the worldwide population. As a result of this phenomenon, it is not surprising that customers’ buying patterns exhibit ...

[EN] The main purpose of this article is the understanding of which marketing strategies related to big data are being implemented by Brazilian companies in different sectors, in addition to assessing these actions within ...

[EN] Progress in Big Data in recent years has grown exponentially, which has allowed the detection and processing of a large amount of data. Until recently, this fact was unattainable by the lack of mechanization of the ...

[EN] A typical analytical lifecycle in data science projects starts with the process of data generation and collection, continues with data preparation and preprocessing and heads towards project specific analytics, ...

[ES] GfK owns the world’s largest retail panel within the tech and durable good industries. The panel consists of weekly Point of Sales (PoS) data, such as price and sales units data at store level. From PoS data and other ...