Following the latest liquidity injections by the PBOC (set to make 2014 the biggest credit creation year since Lehman), countless bailouts of insolvent companies by Beijing and local governments despite promises there would be no bailouts, and what some have dubbed is an actual Chinese QE, all making it quite clear that China was clearly not serious when it threatened […]
How AIR wants to use big-data on our children
Published July 28, 2014 | By JaKell Sullivan
http://www.air.org/resource/long-story-short-how-are-rules-using-big-data-changingWatch this video of Julia Lane, Institute Fellow at American Institutes for Research (AIR)—Utah’s testing agent for SAGE tests. The following are excerpts of some of her quotes, with my translations:“It’s impossible to get informed consent about collecting big-data.”… (TRANSLATION-”We can’t wait for you, the […]
Socionomist
Winston Churchill once said that Russia “is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
But not everyone is so baffled by the world’s biggest country.The Socionomics Institute released a two-part study that examines Russia’s past in order to foreshadow to Russia’s future. In the first part of the study, they examined Russia by assessing historical social events in a […]
The Big Data market is expected to grow to $28.5 billion by the end of 2014 and to top $50 billion by 2017, according to a recent Wikibon report. With the growing market comes millions of new Big Data and Analytics jobs that are being created across the globe. But the amount of new jobs far outweigh the number of […]
Researchers at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health are building the world’s most comprehensive database describing human and animal pathogens, which can be used to prevent and tackle disease outbreaks around the globe.
The Enhanced Infectious Diseases (EID2) database has been developed by the Liverpool University Climate and Infectious Diseases of Animals (LUCINDA) team and is funded […]
PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wasn’t the only high-powered woman to make waves at the Aspen Institute’s Ideas Festival last week. One year post-Snowden and his NSA revelations, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill said in a chat that the “state of privacy is improving.”Brill said that awareness of consumers, the public and media has grown on both the government and commercial sides. […]
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 […]
Originally published June 22, 2014 at 6:20 PM | Page modified June 22, 2014 at 11:38 PM
NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market is back to setting records.After treading water for most of March and April, stocks are nudging deeper into record territory and are closing in on milestones with lots of zeros attached to them. The Dow Jones […]
Transport Systems Catapult organized the Sentiment Mappers Event last week as part of the Imagine Festival. The presentations proved to be inspiring and informative into ways of mapping people’s sentiments related to journeys with the ultimate goal to improve the customer experience in the transport sector.I include here a summary of the 5 presentations below, focusing on some of the […]
Over the last several years, many of the traditional tools and economic assumptions used for understanding the financial system have been slowly replaced by more powerful tools originally developed by physicists, biologists, or even engineers.Dr. Hamid Benbrahim, a data scientist and expert in finance, machine learning, and robotics, explains how the financial system is a complex adaptive system and that […]
