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Upcoming Webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science

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Here are upcoming webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science and Data Mining.
See full schedule at www.kdnuggets.com/webcasts/index.html .
WhenEventMar 1210 am PT1 pm ET

The State of Business […]

Japan Stock Market a Bargain Buying Opportunity

Japan Stock Market a Bargain Buying Opportunity
Added by Trang Ho on March 10, 2014.Saved under Business, Quynh Ho, WorldTags: Japan
Japan’s stock market pulled back from a five-week high Monday following news of weaker-than-expected economic growth and higher-than-expected trade deficit. While Japan’s economy struggles to achieve escape velocity, Japanese blue chips may present a bargain buying opportunity given that the […]

COTD Global Stock Market Hits High – Business Insider

The MSCI World Index closed at an all-time-high Thursday, blowing past the pre-recession peak in October 2007 for the first time.This coincided with the S&P 500’s all-time-high, which came on the fifth anniversary of the U.S. bull market.As American Enterprise Institute’s Mark Perry notes, the MSCI has spiked 17.5% in the past year.”Bottom Line: The global stock market rally […]

March-June Analytics, Big Data and Data Science Meetings

Coming soon: PAW San Francisco, GigaOM Structure, Predictive Analytics/Big Data Innovation Summits, Big Data Techcon, INFORMS Boston, SPB 14, SDM 14, PASS Business Analytics, PAKDD 2014, and many more.
By Gregory Piatetsky, Mar 4, 2014.
Here are upcoming 45 March – June 2014 meetings and conferences.
You can find the full list on KDnuggets page:

Meetings / Conferences on Analytics, […]

To build or not to build: that is the big data question — Tech News …

In-house teams are often tasked with building and delivering a transformative IT project, and while CSP IT teams are highly skilled, this existing knowledge is often redundant in a big data world and new skills are now required. The acquisition of this expertise is one of the key drivers behind the shift toward pre-built big data solutions, though as with […]

SEC Employees Are Freakishly Good Stock Traders – Business Insider

Wikimedia CommonsTwo academics from the University of Virgina got a hold of the trading records of SEC employees — then they built a mock hedge fund to see how it would do. The results are all in a paper presetned at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
The academics, Emory University professor Shivaram Rajgopal and Georgia State University accounting PhD candidate Roger […]

Bonds Are Tanking And Stocks Just Blasted To A … – Business Insider

Better-than-expected economic data in the United States this morning have lifted stocks to new all-time highs as Treasuries slide, sending yields racing higher.The S&P 500 index is trading up 0.5% at 1862, a new intraday record high. 10-year U.S. Treasury futures, meanwhile, are 0.4% lower, and the yield on the 10-year note is 2.69%, 5 basis points below Thursday’s close.ISM-Chicago’s […]

AO.com founder makes £86m as white goods retailer floats on stock …

A former kitchen salesman made £86m selling part of an online white goods company he started for a bet in Bolton pub on Christmas Eve 14 years ago – and he still has a stake worth more than £440m.John Roberts, 40, was moaning to a friend that he wanted to quit his job as a salesman at Moben Kitchens and […]

NOAA Moves to Unleash “Big Data” and Calls Upon American …

Printer-friendly versionGuest blog post by Kathryn Sullivan, Ph.D., Acting Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and Acting NOAA Administrator From the surface of the sun to the depths of the ocean floor, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), part of the Department of Commerce, works to keep citizens informed about the changing environment around them. Our vast network […]