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When Big Data Is Watching You | TechCrunch

Is the answer to our feeble human minds needing to grapple with increasing quantities of big data to stand in a purpose built room immersed in complex data visualisations while wearing an array of sensors that track our physiological reactions? A group of European Commission-backed scientists believe so.They’re attempting to quantify — and, they claim, enhance — cognition by building a sensor-based data visualisation system that dynamically changes the complexity level […]

August 11, 2014 ByNatasha Lomas , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on When Big Data Is Watching You | TechCrunch read more

Stock Market Analysis: Bears Prevail In Europe | Online Stockmarket …

* US stock markets sold down again, weighed down by the energy sector, which fell -4.1% last week, due to concern over geopolitics in Europe.* European stock markets fell to their lowest levels for there months, after factory orders in Germany fell and Italy has regressed into recession again.* Asian stock markets fell again yesterday, following on from weak overseas […]

August 6, 2014 ByMichael , , , , , , , Comments Off on Stock Market Analysis: Bears Prevail In Europe | Online Stockmarket … read more

Stock Downgrades: Lumber Liquidators Magic Carpet Ride Ends …

Investors in Lumber Liquidators (NYSE:LL) are hitting the roof, as there appears to be no floor to how low the hardwood-flooring firm will fall. Its stock, fresh from yesterday’s 8.06% implosion, is tumbling another 20.49% even as we speak. This, after the company pre-announced awful Q2 earnings that included a shocking 7.1% slide in its same-store sales.
 
October is hands down the single scariest […]

July 10, 2014 ByJustin Sharon , , , , , , , Comments Off on Stock Downgrades: Lumber Liquidators Magic Carpet Ride Ends … read more

Technical analysis: The implications of a FRIC ban in F1 – F1 news …

Technical analysis: The implications of a FRIC ban in F1By Craig Scarborough
Wednesday, July 9th 2014, 11:45 GMT
Following the British Grand Prix, Formula 1 teams received an FIA technical directive that aims to ban hydraulically interconnected suspension, better known as FRIC.While not coming completely out of the blue, as the FIA had plans in place to ban the system as part […]

July 9, 2014 Byunknown , , , , , , , , Comments Off on Technical analysis: The implications of a FRIC ban in F1 – F1 news … read more

SAP and Germany Make a Big Data Team at the World Cup

The expectations of the German national team this World Cup has been immense. And it has been building ever since their great run in the European Championship in 2012, where the DFB (German Football Association) was knocked out in the semifinal by the eventual Italian runners up. The entire, soccer crazed, nation of Germany was heartbroken. The German side was […]

July 8, 2014 ByBen Hammonds , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on SAP and Germany Make a Big Data Team at the World Cup read more

Stocks rally late again on Friday | Wright Investors' Service

Down for most of the trading day, stocks pulled out a win for Friday on late-day trading by institutions and indexed portfolios to reflect the annual rebalancing of the Russell Index constituents. The Dow Jones Industrials, thanks to an 80-point swing in the last two hours of trading, finished up 6 points for Friday, trimming the week’s loss to 95 […]

June 27, 2014 Bywrightnetblogger , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on Stocks rally late again on Friday | Wright Investors' Service read more

The US-Germany Match Through a Social Media Lens – NYTimes.com

Nicholas Kamm/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesWorld Cup fans gathered in Washington on Thursday to watch the United States play Germany.The United States-Germany soccer match on Thursday was a roller coaster of emotions. And an analysis of the social media communications before, during and after the match shows the minute-by-minute shifts in sentiment and in subjects discussed, as the American team […]

June 27, 2014 ByBy STEVE LOHR , , , , , , , , Comments Off on The US-Germany Match Through a Social Media Lens – NYTimes.com read more

The Two Most Powerful Forces Pushing the Stock Market Higher …

Following last week’s announcement by the European Central Bank (ECB), the stock market has now broken out above its mostly sideways movement since the beginning of the year to new all-time highs. Over the course of this bull market, each time the market has begun to show weakness, many have expected a selloff to occur only to then find the […]

June 9, 2014 ByFS Staff , , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on The Two Most Powerful Forces Pushing the Stock Market Higher … read more

TED founder thinks big data needs a big makeover

Richard Saul Wurman isn’t a fan of President Barack Obama’s push for data.gov, an online repository for big data. “That’s just politicians talking,” the 79-year-old TED (technology, entertainment, design) conference founder told me. “I think there will be a pushback saying, ‘We don’t understand all this fucking data.’” The way Wurman sees it, that bulk collection of raw information has […]

May 17, 2014 ByTimothy J. Seppala , , , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on TED founder thinks big data needs a big makeover read more

TED founder thinks big data needs a big makeover – Engadget

Richard Saul Wurman isn’t a fan of President Barack Obama’s push for data.gov, an online repository for big data. “That’s just politicians talking,” the 79-year-old TED (technology, entertainment, design) conference founder told me. “I think there will be a pushback saying, ‘We don’t understand all this fucking data.’” The way Wurman sees it, that bulk collection of raw information has […]

May 17, 2014 ByTimothy J. Seppala , , , , , , , , , , , Comments Off on TED founder thinks big data needs a big makeover – Engadget read more