About the Author

Vitor Bianchi Lanzetta is a young economist and data science enthusiast. As soon as his graduation began at University of São Paulo, one of Latin America's most renowned universities, he was introduced to R by his statistics professor. it was love at first sight.

Since then, he has never stopped using it. He joined the university team to compete in the CFA Global Challenge, where he and his team had a whole valuation model translated into R along with a Monte Carlo simulation and a bunch of visualizations done through the language.

While researching commodity prices prediction, Vitor used R from adjusting simple conditional mean-based models to artificial neural networks, along with all the visualizations.

First, I would like to thank my family for all the support. Mom, dad, sister, love you beyond measure! I thank Amanda Carolina Teixeira, Ricardo Farias, and their families for being so nice to me. I wish you the best of success, happiness and love.

I also would like to thank Professor Adriano Azevedo Filho for introducing me to the language and Packt for trusting me this project. Special thanks to Tejas Limkar for all the hard work.