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Stock Market News for June 09, 2014 – June 9, 2014 – Zacks.com

Benchmarks scored record highs yet again on Friday banking on encouraging May’s nonfarm payroll report. The S&P 500 ended at another high; the eighteenth one this year. The blue-chip index also closed at a record level for the eighth time this year. The Nasdaq too closed at a level last seen in late March. Separately, Friday’s gains helped the Russell […]

Stock Market News for June 05, 2014 – June 5, 2014 – Zacks.com

Benchmarks erased day’s initial losses and ended in the green after investors shrugged off dismal labor market data to focus on an encouraging services sector report. The S&P 500 ended at another high; the sixteenth one this year. Separately, the Nasdaq was boosted by gains in tech-bellwether Apple and bio-tech stocks.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, […]

Center for the Future of Museums: A Recap of Big Data

Center for the Future of Museums: A Recap of Big Data

A Recap of Big Data
The good news about the CFM Big Data session in Seattle is that it was very well attended. Actually, that was the bad news, too, as the room was overflowing and we had to turn folks away. I suppose there are worse problems to have—I am […]

Stock Market News for June 02, 2014 – June 2, 2014 – Zacks.com

Benchmarks ended Friday’s trading session little changed following mixed economic reports. While reports on personal income and Chicago PMI numbers were positive, personal consumption expenditure dropped in April for the first time this year. The Nasdaq ended in the red due to declines in tech-bellwethers and bio-tech stocks. However, benchmarks ended in the green for the week and posted their […]

Living Big Data – Project Syndicate

Exit from comment view mode. Click to hide this spaceCAMBRIDGE – Big data is made from the digital trail that we leave behind when we use credit cards, mobile phones, or the Web. Used carefully and accurately, these data give us unprecedented scope to understand our society, and improve the way we live and work. But what works in theory […]

Big data innovation explodes at RENCI | RENCI

Big data innovation explodes at RENCI
Published: May 23, 2014
Claire McPherson of Deloitte closes out a great Innovation Summit.
The creative vibes were buzzing at the First NCDS Data Innovation Showcase, held at RENCI on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. The Showcase, centered around innovative strategies for the rapidly-expanding big data field, brought together NCDS members, faculty […]

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 […]

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 […]

Nate Silver: “Buying Big Data to Solve Problems Is Oversold” | CFA …

Jason Voss, CFAAt the 67th CFA Institute Annual Conference in Seattle, Nate Silver, founder of FiveThirtyEight, delivered an important message to financial professionals about the appropriate uses and definite limitations of big data that was well worth its weight in gold.You would have to have been asleep for the last half-decade to not know that the business world, and consequently its […]

Broad and Novartis Keep Up with Big Data – Bio-IT World

By Matt Luchette May 15, 2014 | In the era of big data, drug developers are pushing for data
analysis to keep up with increased data acquisition. At this April’s Bio-IT
World Conference & Expo, Andrea DeSouza, from the Broad Institute, and Anne
Mai Wassermann, from Novartis, spoke on new technologies they hope will squeeze
meaning from researchers’ mounds of data.At the Broad […]