Who’s who in Big Data? More specifically, who’s hitching their wagons to which frameworks in their efforts to establish Big Data solutions in the enterprise? That’s one question we set out to answer during last week’s BigDataSV event, asking industry leaders and analysts what they’re seeing in the market. Three that were mentioned most include HBase, MapR, and YARN. All […]
Stock Market Dow Divergence Continues. Market Risk Is Rising Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Feb 02, 2014 – 03:16 PM GMTBy: Christopher_Quigley
Despite the recent market pullback Dow Theory divergence continues as can be readily observed from the Dow indices comparison chart below. Divergence is an indication of market instability and investor uncertainty.Clearly […]
Why is Spanish social media sentiment so down on the Estado de la Unión (SOTU) address even though President Obama has an overwhelming likeable sentiment?Although the President urged Congress to pass the immigration reform bill this year in his “Year of Action” plan, was his call for action underplayed? Are the minimum wage reform proposals short-sighted? Is the economic […]
5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)**************************************************************************************************http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/*******************************************************BACKGROUND*******************************************************Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP), has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that made it possible […]
“Big data is a coming wave of ‘green gold,’” says Nick Eisenberger of Pure Energy Partners.”Information technology will be the most powerful tool to address resource challenges in our lifetime.”Eisenberger was speaking at the Markle Foundation offices in New York, where Agrion, which bills itself as the global network for energy, cleantech and corporate sustainability, convened an impressive roundtable to […]
Every hour, NASA’s missions collectively compile hundreds of terabytes of information, which, if printed out in hard copies, would take up the equivalent of tens of millions of trees worth of paper. This deluge of material poses some big data challenges for the space agency. But a team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., is coming up with […]
Quick chart comparison of the two companies fighting a huge battle in the in-flight entertainment business or simply put: wireless internet access for airlines. The battle I am referring to is mainly being fought out in the blogosphere and the social media arena.I have no idea which company is better, which valuation is more appropriate or whatever else you might […]
Stocks are the most popular of the so-called “risk” assets, in contrast with safe haven investments like bonds and gold. But the risk of investing in them isn’t limited to your bank balance or your retirement savings. It may also affect your mental well-being.At least, that’s the conclusion of a study by University of California at San Diego academics, first […]
(Phys.org) —In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has drawn inspiration from physics and the arts. The result is a new data compression method that outperforms existing techniques, such as JPEG for images, and that could eventually be adopted for medical, scientific and […]
In creating an entirely new way to compress data, a team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science has drawn inspiration from physics and the arts. The result is a new data compression method that outperforms existing techniques, such as JPEG for images, and that could eventually be adopted for medical, scientific and video […]
