The Stock Market Could Be Your Last Chance For A Happy Retirement

There was a time when cash was king, but it lost its crown in March 2009 when the Bank of England slashed base rates to 0.5%.If you had saved £10,000 in cash five years ago, and earned an average return of 2% a year, your money would have grown to just £11,041.At that rate of return, cash can’t guarantee you […]

Big Data Hubris: Google Flu versus reality – Boing Boing

Big Data Hubris: Google Flu versus realityCory Doctorow at 6:00 pm Mon, Mar 24, 2014

In The Parable of Google Flu:
Traps in Big Data Analysis [PDF], published in Science, researchers try to understand why Google Flu (which uses search history to predict flu outbreaks) performed so well at first but has not done well since. One culprit: people […]