With the majority of Big Data conversation focused on solving business problems it is easy to lose sight of the fact that the ultimate opportunity of Big Data is solving big problems — problems that affect our entire society. One of them is hunger and the mix of Big Data and agriculture has the potential to arm companies and governments […]
After the workshop, another student took us out to Claiborne, the thoroughbred farm where Secretariat was buried. He was one of the great racehorses of all time. We went to his grave. He was buried in an eight-foot mahogany coffin with a gold satin lining. My student told me, “They don’t usually bury the whole horse, but he was special. […]
Stock Market Choppy Earnings Season but the Bull Remains Firmly Intact Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014May 05, 2014 – 09:45 AM GMTBy: Christopher_Quigley
It was a choppy earnings season but despite its volatility the bull trend remains very much intact.The Dow Transports and Dow Industrials both are trending upward with higher highs and higher lows and both […]
Last week, the White House released its report on big data and its privacy implications, the result of a 90-day study commissioned by President Obama during his January 17 speech on NSA surveillance reforms. Now that we’ve had a chance to read the report we’d like to share our thoughts on what we liked, what we didn’t, and what we […]
Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA): Anatomy of a Run-up Value Creation or Investor Sentiment? Bradford Cornell, professor of Finance, California Institute of Technology, was kind enough to send us, and give us permission to post the following academic paper which he just co-published with Aswath Damodaran, Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University. In light of the fact that many […]
BERKELEY Paul Waddell, a city planning professor at the University of California, Berkeley, with a penchant for conducting research with what he calls his “big urban data,” is putting his work to a real-world test in San Francisco.His high-tech startup “Synthicity” has been chosen from a field of nearly 200 applicants as one of San Francisco’s six new […]
World Financial InStability – Stock Market Wealthbuilder Report Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014Apr 01, 2014 – 10:17 PM GMTBy: Christopher_Quigley
I came across the inverted pyramid below last year which outlines the “asset backing configuration” between gold, cash and all other financial instruments. I decided to try to put some real figures behind this […]
Tell Us What You Think About Big Data and Privacy
John PodestaMarch 20, 2014 03:46 PM EDT Share This PostIn January, President Obama charged me with leading a […]
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Computer Science > Social and Information Networks
Title:
Tripartite Graph Clustering for Dynamic Sentiment Analysis on Social MediaAuthors:Linhong Zhu,
Aram Galstyan,
James Cheng,
Kristina Lerman(Submitted on 24 Feb 2014 (v1), last revised 26 Feb 2014 (this version, v2))
Abstract: The growing popularity of social media (e.g, Twitter) allows users to easily
share information with each other and influence others by expressing their own
sentiments […]
