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Simple Experiment to test the impact of Significant News Events to Stock Trading at Colombo Stocks Exchange in 2017 – A data mining approach

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Stock market is an integral part of any economy and often reflects the performance of the respective economy and un-doubtfully, external forces play a major role in the performance of the stock market. Although, the impact of these factors are not clearly visible or directly attributable as financial performances of listed companies or industries, suggesting a prevailing issue in predicting stock market solely on financial performance. A typical example in the local domain is the record for the highest stock trade on 9th January 2015 in the aftermath of the Presidential election for the year 2015. A similar case in the global context is with the election of Trump in the US. Therefore, in order to understand this effect, we – a group of 3, engaged in a small experiment using data mining considering ‘How Colombo Stock Market is affected by the local news events in Sri Lanka’.     The variation in Stock prices in CSE in 2015. The highest recorded around the Election d...

The Ultimate Journey: My experience at Singapore

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Marina Bay Sands observation Deck Introduction Singapore, as everyone would say is small island city located at the very tip of the Malaysian peninsula. Traditionally inhibited by Sea Gypsies and modernized due to its strategic positioning across the important sea lines in Pacific and Indian oceans, Singapore is well renowned to be the host spot of business, travel and many more. By the Way, ‘sea gypsies’? Well, obviously yes, but Singapore is one of ‘the modern’ cities now, having quite large influence from the western hemisphere because of British colonial rule and you hardly see any foot print of an old fishing village (may be at least in the main land). Singapore is barely one of the few places where multiple cultures blend in with each other ever so closely. It was quite nice to see this diversity boom and anybody can experience this first hand at least with the array of food. Obviously me, I was ready for some Chinese, Indian and Malaysian foods and delicacies which I wo...

Angular JS in your Laravel Project

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Angular JS is a pure front end JavaScript open source framework which extends the HTML attributes using directives and binds the data using expressions. Therefore, much like an extension to the HTML and JavaScript we use day in and day out for general purpose web sites. In fact, Angular JS is best for single page web applications, often used for the purpose of embedding immersive features to the web page along with Bootstrap and JQuery. In contrast, Laravel is a most often considered a back end PHP framework which deals with relational databases. Although, both the frameworks follow the same MVC architecture, the frameworks differ in the underlying communication mechanism as well. That is, Angular JS uses JSON while Laravel uses common relational data format (generally an XML format), simply when passing data among applications.  To continue hereafter, it's assumed there a Laravel app already been created and a basic Angular JS app created as well except for the connection bet...

Data Analytic approach to Aviation: The Sri Lankan Context

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New inclusion to Sri Lankan airlines fleet : the A320 neo, a much greener aircraft  Sri Lanka had been recalled to be the epicentre of International trade in the Silk Route in the narrated history considering its strategic positioning geographically and the availability of resources both in the form of produced and raw material. The geo-political factors surrounding the modern context of Sri Lanka, has had major revelations on developing the 21st century Silk route or the Trans-Asia highway network opting to derive a considerable amount strategic advantage to Asia over the western trade, which by 2016 accounted for 36.2% of the global GDP of 75,210 billion US dollars according to the International Monetary Fund. Major strategic planning had been performed, although for effective implementation, similar to which Sri Lanka had experienced with transforming major airports and ports into transport hubs with global accessibility, essentially revolving around adopting the model...

IS AMPHIBIAN AIRCRAFT A VIABLE OPTION FOR SEARCH & RESCUE AND MARITIME RECONNAISSANCE OPERATIONS IN SRI LANKA

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Sri Lanka being the 25th largest island of the world having a land area of 65,610 Square kilometers is surrounded by the sea possessing 1,585 km of coast line full of pristine beaches. The territorial waters of Sri Lanka extend 12 nautical miles in to sea from the baseline as per the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Exclusive Economic Zone extends for 200 nautical miles from the boundary of the territorial waters. Hence, Sri Lanka is having exclusive rights of exploiting the maritime resources of 517,000 square kilometers large sea area which is 8 times larger than the land area. There is no doubt that reaching economic prosperity of Sri Lanka depends upon exploiting its maritime resources. If the Sri Lankan claim for extended exclusive economic zone is accepted, it owns 1,400,000 square kilometers of sea area which is 23 times of its land mass. The living resources, exploitable minerals and hydrocarbons would be the treasures for Sri Lanka while promotion of oceanic recrea...