economics

Economist's View: Econometrics and 'Big Data'

I tweeted this link, and it’s getting far, far more retweets than I would have expected, so I thought I’d note it here:
Econometrics and “Big Data”, by Dave Giles: In this age of “big data” there’s a whole new language that econometricians need to learn. … What do you know about such things as:
Decision trees 
Support vector machines
Neural nets 
Deep learning
Classification […]

US Stock Ownership At Record Low – Business Insider

Stocks are at all-time highs, and anyone invested in the market has reason to be happy.But that’s just it. It’s only the people who are investing who have gotten a piece of this 3.5-year-long bull market, which has seen the S&P 500 explode 170%According to Gallup’s annual Economics and Personal Finance survey, which was conducted in April, just 52% of […]

The Stock Market Is At An All-Time High – Business Insider

Stocks are at all-time highs, and anyone invested in the market has reason to be happy.But that’s just it. It’s only the people who are investing who have gotten a piece of this 3.5-year-long bull market, which has seen the S&P 500 explode 170%According to Gallup’s annual Economics and Personal Finance survey, which was conducted in April, just 52% of […]