BI IntelligenceThe world is awash in data.
The advent of smartphone-based computing had led to much more internet-based activity, as well as new opportunities to collect location data. The consumer stampede into social media means that the tastes, preferences, and frustrations of billions are shared online. In a couple of recent reports from BI Intelligence, we take stock of how […]
Center for the Future of Museums: Big Data and the Holy Grail of Museum Metrics
Big Data and the Holy Grail of Museum Metrics
One of the themes covered in CFM’s TrendsWatch 2014 report is the power of big data and data analytics. The ubiquity of internet-connected sensing devices and our relentless use of social media and online commerce generates 2.8 zettabytes […]
The information is vast, the challenges daunting, and the tools statistical. But in the end, Harvard’s new class on big data is as much about people as it is about methodology.The 29 students in “Statistics 183, Learning from Big Data,” work in teams that shift every few weeks, tackling challenges that involve enormous data sets. The students brainstorm and learn […]
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The social sector is undergoing an important transformation when it comes to research and evaluation. Nonprofits have shifted from asking whether they should measure their work to how to most effectively assess impact. Coupled with the emergence of new approaches for collecting and analyzing data, there’s never been more interest […]
(Phys.org) —Information technology advances are leading to ever-growing accumulations of “big data,” making it feasible to quantify more things long thought immeasurable.
Arizona State University professor Ying-Cheng Lai and his research partners are combining expertise in […]
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State of BI, Risk Assessment, Data Science Summit, Large-Scale Real-Time Learning, Data Mining: failure to launch, Online fraud detection, and more.
Here are upcoming webcasts on Analytics, Big Data, Data Science and Data Mining.
See full schedule at www.kdnuggets.com/webcasts/index.html .
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The State of Business […]
TraderFeed: A Valuable Visualization of Stock Market Social Sentiment
A Valuable Visualization of Stock Market Social Sentiment
Thanks to @chicagosean from StockTwits, who pointed out very helpful data visualizations of social media participation. The above chart is a heatmap of stocks broken down by sector, sized for number of mentions on the StockTwits site, and color coded for whether the posts […]
TraderFeed: A Valuable Visualization of Stock Market Social Sentiment
A Valuable Visualization of Stock Market Social Sentiment
Thanks to @chicagosean from StockTwits, who pointed out very helpful data visualizations of social media participation. The above chart is a heatmap of stocks broken down by sector, sized for number of mentions on the StockTwits site, and color coded for whether the posts […]
By Bill Dennis, CEO of EOTPRO Developments Inc.This article will discuss social media and news analytics sentiment for short term intraday trading. We will outline our experience surrounding both data sets and highlight some common challenges that users may experience when incorporating this data into their workflow. Finally, we will explain how we have solved some of the challenges and […]
Who Should Attend a Big Data Conference This Year?
February 10, 2014 by Dave Leininger
“I think this would be a good technology conference to attend,” I suggested to the owner of a small company for whom I worked years ago. “Here is why: out of 24 sessions being presented over two days, I can attend the eight that are closely aligned with […]
