By Stephen Goldsmith & Christopher Kingsley.Chances are very good that the last call you received from a congressional campaign was personal. A volunteer chose your seven-digit number, out of thousands in the ward, because an algorithm comparing dozens of data points on when you registered, how you’ve voted, and what kind of truck you drive suggested that you were persuadable. […]
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.
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Are We Heading For Another 1987-Style Stock Market Crash?Stock-Markets / Financial CrashApr 13, 2014 – 02:54 PM GMTBy: Graham_Summers
The big story developing in the US markets regards the sudden crackdown by regulators, most notably the SEC and Justice Department, on High Frequency Trading or HFT.For well over five years now, certain trading firms have been using high-speed […]
Benchmarks ended in the red zone yesterday, once again dragged down by declines in momentum and bio-tech stocks. The bearish mood weighed on Nasdaq the most as it suffered the largest decline in two and half years. Separately, discouraging Chinese trade data unnerved investors. The day’s positive economic data on unemployment benefits failed to restrict the day’s loss.For a look […]
Benchmarks soared on Wednesday primarily boosted by the encouraging minutes from the central bank’s policy meeting. Fed officials are said to be in favor of hiking rates only when they are sure about the economic recovery. Alcoa’s positive quarterly numbers boosted its share price, somewhat driving the broader market as well.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, […]
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Doms, Under Secretary for Economic AffairsBig Data and Open Data are all the rage these days. However,
Commerce was into Big Data before Big Data was cool. As far back as 1790, we
began collecting data on patents in the U.S. and the Census Bureau conducted
the first Decennial Census […]
The Department of Justice is investigating high-frequency stock trading to see if any of the practices violate insider trading laws, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday.Brokerage firms use high-frequency trading to get a jump on their competitors. Powerful computers analyze market information and then execute buy and sell orders for stocks within a fraction of a second.“The Department is […]
The Department of Justice is investigating high-frequency stock trading to see if any of the practices violate insider trading laws, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday.Brokerage firms use high-frequency trading to get a jump on their competitors. Powerful computers analyze market information and then execute buy and sell orders for stocks within a fraction of a second.“The Department is […]
Rochester, Minnesota (pop. 109,000) is a small city perhaps best known as the home of the Mayo Clinic.But that doesn’t mean the town’s police department is not busy–and connected. Last year the Rochester Police Department (RPD) decided to build an app to keep its officers’ 160 work smartphones connected and in communication when on the job. Like other tech-savvy departments, […]
Investors’ anxiety ahead of the referendum vote during the weekend in Crimea compelled benchmarks to end in the red on Friday. The tension between Russia and Ukraine along with concerns over a possible slowdown in China impacted the markets through this week. The S&P 500 fell below the key technical level of 1,850 for the second day in a row […]
