Studying the Stock Market via Unsupervised Machine Learning: How Well Do Sectors Align with Clusters?
Abstract This paper utilizes k-means clustering to cluster stocks in the Istanbul Stock Exchange based on certain financial indicators, principal component analysis to graph the data points and clusters with as much variance as possible in two dimensions. In the end, a confusion matrix is created to calculate the accuracy of the cluster prediction given
Updated: Legal Systems and Individual Freedom
Abstract This paper tries to explain the relationship between public and private law and offer a new approach in defining the abstract political situations of voluntaryism and totalitarianism by tying them to legal systems. It offers a set of economic and political data to support the claim that the relationship between totalitarianism and voluntaryism and
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Party Performance in the 2024 Turkish Municipal Elections: Studying Votes Instead of Wins
Abstract The results of the 2024 Turkish municipal elections surprised many with CHP, the main opposition party, leading the polls for the first time in 35 years and lower turnout rates than one is used to observe in Turkish elections. This paper studies the city council elections, to avoid as much as it can the
Legal Systems and Individual Freedom: A Western Linear Model
Abstract This paper tries to explain the relationship between public and private law and offer a new approach in conceptualizing the abstract political situations of voluntaryism/voluntarism and totalitarianism. It offers a set of economic and political data to support the claim that the relationship between totalitarianism and voluntaryism and that of public and private law can be explained in
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Türkiye’nin (Olmayan) Geleceği: Seçkin Liseler
İnsanın bir olguyu eleştirmeye enerji harcaması için iki koşulun var olması gerekir. Birincisi, eleştirilen özneye ilişkin ciddi bir sevgi ve kaygı ve ikincisi, o anki durumun değişeceğine ilişkin ciddi bir inanç ve umut hissedilmelidir. Biricik okulum Kabataş Erkek Lisesi’nden uzun süreli uzaklaşacağım vakit yaklaştıkça bu yazıyı yazmak için içimde daha büyük bir ihtiyaç duyuyorum. Türkiye’nin
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A Critique of Turkey’s Health Care System
I am writing this article upon the death of Aslı Özkısırlar (38) on account of multi-organ failure.1 This painful incident happened because Ms. Özkısırlar couldn’t find any available bed for 25 days at the nearest state-run hospital, making it impossible for her to get hospitalized.2 I have to remark that my purpose of writing this
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Türk Sağlık Sisteminin Bir Eleştirisi
Bu yazıyı Aslı Özkısırlar’ın (38) çoklu organ yetmezliği sebebiyle vefatı üzerine yazıyorum.1 Bu elim olay, Aslı Hanım’ın tedavi görmesi gereken devlet hastanesinde 25 gün boyunca müsait bir yatak olmaması sebebiyle hastaneye yatışı sağlanamadığı için meydana geldi.2 Baştan belirtmeliyim ki bu yazıyı yazmaktaki amacım konu üzerinden boş bir siyaset çevirmek değil, diğer vatandaşlarımızın sağlık hizmetlerinden faydalanırken
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