RICK DELGADORick Delgado is an enterprise tech commentator and writer.Although Big Data is no longer a foreign concept to businesses they still face significant challenges when implementing it into their organizations. And the problem doesn’t stem from understanding its importance. Rather, it lies in finding the right people for the job.Addressing the shortageThere are many reasons the Big Data skills […]
Stock Market Down Hard Then Reversal…..Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jul 29, 2014 – 03:06 PM GMTBy: Jack_SteimanNo one reading this article will argue that things are deteriorating technically. We also have fundamental headaches, such as we saw from the real-estate world today. But focusing on technical action, the bears certainly have made some progress. A nice gap down now in […]
Will Crashing Commodities Crash the Stock Market?Stock-Markets / Financial Markets 2014Jul 29, 2014 – 10:47 AM GMTBy: Clif_Droke There are some analysts out there who maintain that the precipitous decline in commodity prices this year bodes ill for the stock market.Witness for example the dramatic drop in the price of corn. Below is a chart of the Teucrium Corn Fund […]
There is still so much confusion surrounding Big Data. I thought it might help to clarify the 4 key layers of a big data system – i.e. the different stages the data itself has to pass through on its journey from raw statistic or snippet of unstructured data (for example, social media post) to actionable insight.The whole point of a […]
Will Crashing Commodities Crash the Stock Market?By: Clif Droke | Mon, Jul 28, 2014SharePrintEmailWitness for example the dramatic drop in the price of corn. Below is a chart of the Teucrium Corn Fund (CORN), a proxy for corn futures. As you can see, corn prices are at multi-year lows right now. This is ironic given that the mainstream media assured […]
When Starbucks is deciding where to put a new location…when the World Health Organization needs to find out where polio is still a threat…when a city wants to know if its planned new convention center is in a flood zone…they all use maps.Of course, the maps have gotten a lot more advanced and accessible. Google and GPS providers have put […]
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 […]
Stock Market One FINAL High?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jul 28, 2014 – 12:08 PM GMTBy: Andre_GratianCurrent Position of the MarketSPX: Very Long-term trend – The very-long-term cycles are in their down phases, and if they make their lows when expected, there will be another steep decline into late 2014. However, the Fed policy of keeping interest rates low has severely […]
Malcolm Morrison, The Canadian PressPublished Monday, July 28, 2014 6:54AM EDTLast Updated Monday, July 28, 2014 5:19PM EDTTORONTO — A drop in energy stocks helped push the Toronto stock market slightly lower Monday as traders brace for a heavy slate of earnings reports this week, particularly from the resource sector.The S&P/TSX composite index gave back 9.82 points to 15,445.22.”This week […]
Forex Trade Signal on AUDUSD Triangle – July 28, 2014By Forexminute – Samuel Rae | Technical Outlook | Jul 28, 2014 4:43AM BSTAUD/USD has been making higher lows and finding resistance at the .9460 area, creating a forex trade signal on the ascending triangle on its 4-hour time frame. The pair just found resistance at the top of the triangle […]
