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Trading Update 5/11/15

We’re going on 3 months since our last trading update.  It’s not been because of poor performance (although there is that) but more our busy schedule and chosen day of the week to update.  Typically we update our models and spreadsheets after Friday’s close and then update the blog afterwards however with summer approaching and the thermometer creeping up we […]

Oppenheimer Comments On 2 Biotech Stocks – Centene … – Benzinga

Related CNCOppenheimer Boosting Targets In Healthcare On ‘Exposure To Interest Rate Changes’8 Managed Care Stocks To Watch In Earnings Season’Non-Cyclical Consumer Healthcare’: How This Sector Will Create Long-Term Wealth(Seeking Alpha)Related Biotech: Anatomy Of An Investing Mania?Bind Therapeutics Rallies Off Oppenheimer RatingIn separate reports, Oppenheimer analysts commented on the pipelines of two Biotech majors – Centene Corp (NYSE: CNC) and BIND […]

Oppenheimer Comments On 2 Biotech Stocks – Benzinga

Related CNCOppenheimer Boosting Targets In Healthcare On ‘Exposure To Interest Rate Changes’8 Managed Care Stocks To Watch In Earnings Season’Non-Cyclical Consumer Healthcare’: How This Sector Will Create Long-Term Wealth(Seeking Alpha)Related Biotech: Anatomy Of An Investing Mania?Bind Therapeutics Rallies Off Oppenheimer RatingIn separate reports, Oppenheimer analysts commented on the pipelines of two Biotech majors – Centene Corp (NYSE: CNC) and BIND […]

The New Weapon Against Disease-Spreading Insects Is Big Data …

Computer models that pinpoint the likely locations of mosquitoes and tsetse flies are helping officials target vector control efforts.Ploughing the fertile soils of the Niayes region near Dakar in Senegal is still done using beasts of burden—and Big Data is protecting these bovine beasts from an enfeebling malady that’s spread by tsetse flies.An international research team combined high-resolution maps with advances in species distribution models to […]

Capacity Planning with Big Data and Cloudera Manager | Cloudera …

Thanks to Bill Podell, VP Big Data and BI Practice, MBI Solutions, for the guest post below.Capacity planning has long been a critical component of successful implementations for production systems. Today, Big Data calls for a particularly deep understanding of capacity management – because resource utilization explodes as business users, analysts, and data scientists jump onboard to analyze and use […]

The business of big data audits: monetizing fairness | mathbabe

I gave a talk to the invitation-only NYC CTO Club a couple of weeks ago about my fears about big data modeling, namely:that big data modeling is discriminatory,
that big data modeling increases inequality, and
that big data modeling threatens democracy.
I had three things on my “to do” list for the audience of senior technologists, namely:test internal, proprietary models for discrimination,
help regulators like the CFPB develop […]

TraderFeed: PREP: Bottoming Stock Market or Gain Before Eventual …

I’ve received quite a few questions from traders about stocks and whether we’re putting in a bottom here. The question is understandable. If you look at a chart of the NYSE Composite Index ($NYA), for instance, you’ll see that we’ve bounced off a support area. Too, you can see from the number of fresh three-month highs minus […]

Stock and Futures Sentiment from Social Media and News Analysis …

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 […]

Facebook Inc (FB) news: Facebook Earnings Preview: Stock Isn't …

Facebook (FB), the social media giant, reports after the closing bell on Wednesday, January 29th, 2014. Analyst consensus per ThomsonReuters is currently expecting $0.27 in earnings per share (EPS) on $2.32 billion in revenues, for expected year-over-year growth of 59% and 92% respectively.Exiting the October ’13 quarter’s report, the consensus EPS and revenue estimates were for $0.22 and $2.2 billion […]

How Big Data Is Changing Science (and Society) – Pacific Standard …

If a world that relies on cause and effect gets rid of the cause, what happens?One day in high school science class, our teacher handed out black plastic boxes that were completely sealed. As we lifted, rotated, and shook the boxes, we could hear a heavy object rattling around inside, bumping into the barriers of an internal maze we couldn’t […]