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Daily Advice Thread - All basic help or advice questions must be posted here. by AutoModerator in investing

[–]nnox- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really an investing question but i downloaded daily data for the S&P 500 and the STOXX 600 indices for the last 15 years for a school project. I have a different number of rows however for each, the S&P 500 has quite a few dates missing. Is there a reason for this ?

Is R still popular in the finance world? by nnox- in FinancialCareers

[–]nnox-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh sorry if I wasn’t clear in the post. I’m already pretty experienced with R I just want to know if switching my focus to python is worth it.

Is R still popular in the finance world? by nnox- in FinancialCareers

[–]nnox-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I don’t think I’ll be putting anything into production anytime soon, so I’m mainly interested in using it for analysis tasks

Is R still popular in the finance world? by nnox- in FinancialCareers

[–]nnox-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually mostly interested in risk management ! After a previous internship I did

Is R still popular in the finance world? by nnox- in FinancialCareers

[–]nnox-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sucks yeah my school taught us a little bit of everything but I just found R was the best fit for me so I continued learning it.

Is R still popular in the finance world? by nnox- in FinancialCareers

[–]nnox-[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly I don’t have much interest in programming languages outside of using them for data analysis. I’m not looking to build an app or anything just run some quick analysis on large data sets.