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Insider Trading is Very Damaging to Markets and a Terrible Crime …

Interesting bit from Slate (via Business
Insider
) from last week tracing
the shockingly good record of Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) employees when it comes to making trades at the
right time in stocks of companies the SEC investigates.Turns out reseachers found “SEC employees tend to sell a
company’s stock before the SEC takes enforcement action against the
company” leading to:
abnormal returns of about 4 percent for […]

UALR Lab Translates Big Data Into Dollars | Arkansas Business …

A reporter is zooming around downtown Little Rock, zipping past the soon-to-be-renamed Metropolitan Tower and down Spring Street toward the Arkansas River. As she prepares to swoop over the Old State House, her legs start to buckle and nausea strikes.Her tour guide lets up on the controls, slowing the visitor’s wingless flight and letting her regain her balance.For a novice […]

How does Big Data help us understand the vastness of space? Ask …

SMembers of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab’s Data Science community — including Rob Witoff, Tomas Soderstrom, and Andrew Hart — are here to answer our questions about using data, visualization, modeling, and just what we might be able to do with it all in space.Top image: A visualization from the IT data science team analyzing education & diplomas across JPL. The […]

The Stock Market In Japan Is COLLAPSING – The Economic Collapse

By Michael Snyder, on February 4th, 2014
Did you see what just happened in Japan?  The stock market of the 3rd largest economy on the planet is imploding.  On Tuesday, the Nikkei fell by more than 610 points.  If that sounds like a lot, that is because it is.  The largest one day stock market decline in U.S. history […]

Why the only thing better than big data is bigger data – Quartz

For many businesses, big data is superfluous. Except, a recently-published paper on the mathematics of big data reveals, when it isn’t. It turns out there is a kind of data that, like black holes or evil wizards of Middle Earth, only becomes more powerful the larger it grows. What’s more, suggest researchers Enric Junqué de Fortuny, David Martens and Foster […]

Taking the creepy out of Big Data – mUmBRELLA

Taking the creepy out of Big DataWhile most people find Big Data creepy, Paddy Nixon and Ros Harvey from the University of Tasmania argue democratising it would be a real social benefit.Big Data has a reputation for being creepy; the domain of “Big Business” and “Big Government”. At best it’s the driver of relentless advertising, uniquely targeted and eerily reminiscent of our most recent […]

HP Earth Insights – Business Insider

HP Earth Insights/YouTubeA photo of an elephant used by Earth InsightsSee AlsoFour New Tech Trends That Should Be Huge In 2014HP Announces Another 5,000 Layoffs, For A Total Of 34,000How America’s Best Inventor, Dean Kamen, Is Helping Thousands Of US Kids2013 was the year when “big data” became a really huge thing.
Big data refers to collecting vast amounts of data […]

7 ways Big Data could revolutionize our lives by 2020 [Infographic …

We’ve heard how Big Data is transforming various industries, and how it can affect the fortunes of big businesses, but very few actually specify how Big Data is transforming the world and people’s lives.To illustrate this, WhoIsHostingThis.com has created an infographic that explores the “Top 7 Ways Big Data Could Revolutionize Our Lives by 2020″.  Though the infographic is pertaining […]

Best Quotes from Sentiment Analysis Symposium 2013 – NYC …

About Chris Boudreaux
Chris Boudreaux helps brands transform their business operations through digital and social media. He published The Most Powerful Brand on Earth in 2013 with Susan Emerick of IBM, and he is building a community for Employee Advocacy practitioners at SocialMediaGovernance.com.

His work has been featured by media including Forrester, Gartner, Harvard Business Review, Inc. magazine and Mashable. In 2012, […]