Chapter 1. Data Envelopment Analysis and Big Data: A Systematic Literature Review with Bibliometric Analysis -- Chapter 2. Acceleration of large-scale DEA computations using random forest classification -- Chapter 3. The estimation of productive efficiency through machine learning techniques:...

This paper studies the power of online search intensity metrics, measured by Google, for examining and forecasting exchange rates. We use panel data consisting of quarterly time series from 2004 to 2018 and ten international countries with the highest currency trading volume. Newly, we include...

Granular spatial information on the distributions of human population is relevant to a variety of fields like health, economics, and other areas of public sector planning. This paper applies ensemble methods and aims at assessing their applicability to analyzing and forecasting population...