The startup aims to help better understand how a stock market really functions through a “sentiment index”; wishes to garner 1M users by the end of the yearPlaying the Chinese stock market can be likened to entering a battlefield with a blindfold over one’s eyes, even if the player is a native. For one, the aforementioned war zone is swarmed with retail […]
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Investors got some bad news about the American shopper on Friday, driving down stocks and sending the Dow Jones industrial average to a loss for the week.Two major U.S. companies — the retail giant Amazon and the credit card processor Visa — […]
Researchers at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health are building the world’s most comprehensive database describing human and animal pathogens, which can be used to prevent and tackle disease outbreaks around the globe.
The Enhanced Infectious Diseases (EID2) database has been developed by the Liverpool University Climate and Infectious Diseases of Animals (LUCINDA) team and is funded […]
Data might just be the new driver of business success.Airbnb uses data to match lodging and travelers. Netflix uses data to personalize your entertainment. Amazon uses data to sell you more stuff. And Google uses data to drive better search, advertising, email, and social.But data doesn’t reveal its secrets easily — or cheaply. Hence the exploding role of data scientist, which […]
George Dyson. Credit: edge.orgIf you read about Big Data for very long, a quote from science historian George Dyson is sure to come up: “Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away.”That will be a platform to talk about the challenges, etc.But there is a bigger problem that […]
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Here’s a fascinating projection that Credit Suisse Research just tweeted.By 2030, Credit Suisse expects the global stock market to balloon to $284.2 trillion and look like what you see below.According to the World Federation of Exchanges, the total value of stocks in the top 60 major stock market exchanges was $62.4 trillion as of July […]
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Jul. 11, 2014, 9:49 AM
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Here’s a fascinating projection that Credit Suisse Research just tweeted.By 2030, Credit Suisse expects the global stock market to balloon to $284.2 trillion and look like what you see below.According to the World Federation of Exchanges, the total value of stocks in the top 60 major stock market exchanges was $62.4 trillion as of July […]
Given the amount of hype surrounding it you could be forgiven for thinking that big data is the answer to most business and scientific problems.But a new survey by database specialists Paradigm4 reveals that almost three-quarters of data scientists believe that big data has made their research harder. The reason for this is not, as you might expect, the volume […]
Excerpted from ‘Tangible Ideas’ via Sean Corrigan of Diapason Commodities,So where does this leave us, in financial markets, at the mid-point of the year, other than with asset prices through the roof?As can be gathered from the faux lamentations issuing forth from those central banking Uriah Heeps who sit wringing their hands at the dangers inherent in a ‘search for […]
As companies, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) are tech firms that represent more than just search engines. Both have built household brands; Google has even influenced our everyday language, making “googling” a verb. We have become dependent on tools from both of these huge search engines, and many investors may believe that either of these two companies would be a […]
