Colonies do not cease to be colonies because they are indendependent.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister, circa 1880.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and ivariably disappointing.
George Orwell, British political essayst, circa 1950.

This repository is (currently) organized accross X folders:

• 1 - Data: this folder is, by it's turn, organized across two sub-folders:
  • a - Data Processing-Extraction: which systematizes data extraction for each class of predictors from different datasources and prepare data for merging;
  • b - Data-Merge: sets the key for merging datasets, and clean and prepare final data for analysis.
• 2 - Functions: set of auxiliary functions used in data visualization and analysis.