People love dealing with well-structured data. It costs much less efforts than working with disorganized raw texts.
In economic and financial research, we typically download data from open-access websites or authentication-required databases. These sources may provide data in multiple formats. For example, almost all 继续阅读 »
Motivation
Functor solves the problem of mapping regular one-parameter functions into a sub-category, but that's not easy for functions with more than one parameters.
Let's consider a function with two parameters f :: a -> b -> c, which can also read as a -> (b -> c). Applying fmap on f, we will get fmap f :: m a -> 继续阅读 »