Last week’s market price action was somewhat like watching paint peel. In other words, there just wasn’t much going on.Even though the market edged higher for the fourth straight week and the S&P 500 hit new record highs, the gains came during the smallest market moves since 1979.After Monday, the benchmark S&P rose or fell less than 0.1 percent on […]
For years, big data has been one of the hottest buzzwords across all industries.Big data is the term used to describe the process of analyzing complex set of data sets to discover information that could help make better decisions or find certain patterns that were previously unknown.For example, Amazon is able to recommend products based on your previous buying patterns. […]
Encouraging housing data and upbeat earnings results ensured a positive finish for benchmarks on Tuesday. The positives offset negative sentiment arising from ongoing geopolitical tensions in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Apple hit a record split-adjusted closing high, which also contributed to the bullish mood. The S&P 500 is now 10 points away from its record high. The Nasdaq closed above 4,500 points […]
From (inter)objective Big Data to (inter)subjective Deep DataMichel Bauwens16th August 2014
The real problem of big data is that we are increasingly outsourcing our capacity to sense and think to algorithms programmed into machines. While this seems very convenient and cool at first and offers access to services that many of us want, it also raises a question about who actually […]
Recent posts have focused on improved versions of standard market indicators, including sentiment, Bollinger Bands, VWAP, and ticks. One of my most challenging projects, however, has focused on the creation of measures of buying and selling pressure in the stock market. My goal in creating this measure was to follow an intuition and treat supply and demand as separate, independent […]
Big Data has reached the point at which performance matters as much as the technology, according to Chris Selland, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s Vertica group. Conversations and experiences at the HP Vertica conference underscore to Selland that the Big Data marketplace is shifting towards placing greater emphasis on enterprise-class performance. He discussed these changes with […]
In my recent VentureBeat post, I explored the emerging field of crowd science, how this sub-niche of data science is at the intersection of analytics and psychology, and how we apply it to our customers’ innovation processes at Mindjet. Since then, I’ve stumbled upon numerous articles and news events that involve concepts from crowd science, leading me to believe it […]
What does big data say about Sri Lanka?On 8th August 2014, LIRNEasia held an event titled “Big data for development: Responsible use of mobile meta-data to support public purposes” in Negombo, Sri Lanka that was attended by all the MNOs in Sri Lanka as well as MNOs/ industry representatives from Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.The purpose of the event was two-fold:Show how mobile […]
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 […]
However, shares of General Motors Company (GM – Analyst Report) dropped 4.5% after the company reported second quarter 2014 adjusted earnings of 58 cents per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 78 cents per share. The auto manufacturer reported disappointing second-quarter results largely due to recall costs that chopped $1.5 billion from the company’s bottom line. Further, the company […]
