The Shanghai stock market crashed on Thursday … – Business Insider

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The Shanghai Composite stock index was slammed on Thursday, dropping by 6.5%.Over the last year, the Shanghai exchange has grown to be the third largest in the world.Here are the ten largest stock exchanges in the world by total market capitalization, as of April 2015, according to the World Federation of Exchanges’ monthly report. With a total end of […]

The Limits of Big Data: A Review of Social Physics by Alex Pentland …

In 1969, Playboy published a long, freewheeling interview with Marshall McLuhan in which the media theorist and sixties icon sketched a portrait of the future that was at once seductive and repellent. Noting the ability of digital computers to analyze data and communicate messages, he predicted that the machines eventually would be deployed to fine-tune society’s workings. “The computer can […]