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Political Calculations: Tracking the Number of Publicly-Traded …

Political CalculationsUnexpectedly Intriguing!Tracking the Number of Publicly-Traded Companies in the U.S. Stock MarketHow many U.S. companies have been publicly listed on the AMEX, NASDAQ and NYSE stock market exchanges over each of the past 40 years?The answer is graphically presented in the following chart!In the chart, we’ve also indicated the National Bureau of Economic Research’s official periods of recession in […]

Communicating Technical Analysis | Business Communications

The Technical Writer as an Analyst is a subject matter expert when involved with analyzing any data collected. The writer/analyst is able to communicate and translate technical information from examining a series of data; whether it be about processes, issues, trends, etc.However, before any analysis or evaluation of the data can be done, the writer has to fully understand and […]

Is Technical Analysis Completely Worthless? – Political Calculations …

The general consensus among most people who seriously study markets is that technical analysis is mostly garbage.

After all, how can a investing method that completely disregards a company’s fundamental business prospects in favor of tracking its stock price over time possibly ever get anything right except by chance?

In fact, the most wide-ranging study conducted to date […]

Thoughts on making sense of all the social media chatter | Research …

Editor’s note: Darren Borne is business development manager at Document Capture Co., a London-based data automation firm.Text and sentiment analytics is nothing new. It has been a widely-used method of information-mining for some time, viewed by many as a fail-safe data capture process for producing valid insight from any environment where a large amount of free-written data is available.Utilizing semantic […]

Big Data in Security – Part V: Anti-Phishing in the Cloud – Cisco Blog

In the last chapter of our five part Big Data in Security series, expert Data Scientists Brennan Evans and Mahdi Namazifar join me to discuss their work on a cloud anti-phishing solution.Phishing is a well-known historical threat. Essentially, it’s social engineering via email and it continues to be effective and potent. What is TRAC currently doing in this space to protect Cisco […]