Provide major takeaways from Chapter 1 in 50 words.
Reproducible finance is about how to do quantitative, data science-driven financial analysis. Readable and reproducible work is a priority. xts is a time series which holds observations and the times at which they occurred. Tidyverse is a collection of R packages for certain data science.Tidyquant combines xts, PerformanceAnalytics, and tidyverse. Data visualization translates numbers into shapes making it easier to understand. Shiny applications allow users to share work without the code.