This chapter explores techniques for assessing the financial viability of long-term projects. It covers key methods like NPV, IRR, payback period, and discounted payback period, providing practical examples and guidance...

Assessment 5: VisualRank using image similarity Introduction This assignment is based on the well-known PageRank algorithm developed by Google to help in ranking webpages. Although much has changed with Google’s...

Assignment 4: Principal Component Analysis This assignment asks you to implement, a principal component analysis (PCA) using a singular value decomposition on a real data set. A real dataset We now ask that you...

Assessment 3: Microchip voltage You are now asked to write some code of your own that will achieve the goals laid out below. The purpose of this exercise is two-fold. It will a) test your skills in designing and...

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