Carlos's Escience Blog Big Data Econometrics

Week 2

Tues/Thurs Oct. 7 and 9th

  • Continued work on making R script completely functional from start to finish
  • Generated Value Function training sample with R script, using small sample of data
  • Worked with Andrew set up Amazon EC2 instance for the project
  • Attempted to run this "baby" R script on the Amazon instance, but discovered that the instance runs out of memory
  • Am reducing the size of input R objects, which are the apparent cause of the memory issue