In Michael Lewis’ Moneyball, a data expert does what baseball scouts cannot: predict the future performance of a player with better accuracy. In addition to relying on the instincts of scouts, the Oakland A’s decided to use analytics to predict whether a player would be a top performer, thus gaining notoriety and kicking off an unprecedented winning streak.Ex-New Jersey Attorney […]
Adapting to the new Big Data world of practicality & data integration | #HPBigData2014 Rachel Schramm | August 14thREAD MOREThe Big Data marketplace is fraught with new challenges as it accelerates into the enterprise, with platforms like Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s Vertica being applied to business for practical reasons, according to Lawrence Schwartz. The VP of marketing at Attunity Ltd. characterized these […]
Nothing boosts the prospects of page hits on a blog – or funding of a grant proposal – like the phrase “big data.” Why are we enamored with “big data”? It’s not the magic bullet of management or policy: It’s made money for a few companies, but has backfired bigtime in the arenas of national security (NSA surveillance scandals) and […]
Thursday was the first very truly rough day in a long while for the indexes but it should not have been a major surprise. If you have been reading our recaps we had been mentioning how the indexes were being held up by some big names but under the surface breadth was weakening. Further the NYSE McClellan Oscillator has been […]
Stock Market Final Thrust Higher?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jul 23, 2014 – 03:32 PM GMTBy: Anthony_CherniawskiGood Morning!Yesterday I commented that the final Wave needed to have 5 lesser waves in the last thrust. This appears to be it. The target for this wavelet is 2000.00 in the SPX. Round numbers appear to have a psychological attraction and this is no […]
SummaryMany bears, short sellers and potentially objective news reporters keep saying there is too much complacency.
Others say this is the most hated bull market in history, so we should be bullish.
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Stock Market Pop-n-drop Friday?Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 06, 2014 – 03:25 PM GMTBy: Anthony_Cherniawski
SPX is against the hourly Cycle Top and upper trendline o fits Broadening Top formation. It may have completed a Micro Wave [3] of Sub-Minuette Wave v yesterday. One more surge to go. My Model suggests resistance at 1943.00, but Wave […]
Dow Countdown To Stock Market MeltdownStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Jun 04, 2014 – 10:58 AM GMTBy: Austin_Galt
“It’s not timing the market but time in the market”. Yep, we’ve all heard this refrain from market commentators on TV disguised as experts. Some go even further saying it’s impossible to time the market. Well, what a […]
Big Data needs Big Model
Posted by Andrew on 22 May 2014, 9:29 amGary Marcus and Ernest Davis wrote this useful news article on the promise and limitations of “big data.”And let me add this related point:Big data are typically not random samples, hence the need for “big model” to map from sample to population. Here’s an example (with Wei Wang, […]
Exhibition ‘Chicago: City of big data’I’m currently in Chicago for a couple of days to deliver my public workshop. Thanks to the recommendation of Tom Schenk Jr. I had chance to quickly see a really nice free exhibition at the Chicago Architecture Foundation called ‘Chicago: City of big data‘.
Through interactive displays, recreated sections of Chicago and views into your own […]
