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Big Data on the Smart Grid: 2013 in Review and 2014 Outlook …

“Big data” may be the most overused buzz-phrase in the smart grid industry today. But that doesn’t mean that managing, analyzing and deriving operational and customer value from the massive amounts of data being collected by utilities isn’t important and valuable — or that utilities aren’t spending on it. GTM Research has pegged the value of the global utility data […]

The Public Is Not In The Stock Market [SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust …

As stocks keep hitting new milestones, more and more pundits worry we’re in another stock market bubble. They cite record margin debt, euphoria over initial public offerings like that of Twitter (TWTR), and, of course, the big run we’ve already seen in the major indices.And they mention the growing involvement of Main Street investors in the stock market just as […]

Big Data – Are We to Repeat the Past? | Technology content from …

RFID. While its roots are generally traced back to World War II, radio frequency identification technology did not find a supply chain toehold until the 1970s when the first patents were issued. That was the same time frame in which the U.S. government’s Department of Energy asked the Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop a system for tracking nuclear materials. […]

Greylock Leads $12 Million Round for Big Data Startup Trifacta – Arik …

For all its hype as a potential panacea for companies everywhere, Big Data isn’t necessarily useful data. All the analysis in the world isn’t helpful if, in the end, you can’t figure out what your data actually indicates. Gleaning information by interpreting and recognizing patterns in the data, and then deciding on a course of action, is sort of hard. […]

Room on Campus for Big Data – Bio-IT World

By Aaron KrolNovember 26, 2013 | Since joining the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in 2008, Chris Mentzel has wanted to spur investment in the cause of data science in the American university system. The Moore Foundation is committed to fostering the earliest, most speculative stages of scientific research, the sort of pushing at the barriers of knowledge that is more […]

WASSA 2014 : 5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to …

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5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)
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http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/
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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 […]

QuickWire: 3 Universities Join to Make Big Data More Useful – Wired …

QuickWire: 3 Universities Join to Make Big Data More UsefulNovember 12, 2013, 5:06 pmBy Lawrence BiemillerNew York University is teaming up with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Washington on a five-year effort to help researchers take advantage of ever-increasing amounts of information by improving both data management and data analysis. The project, slated to cost […]