Fighting Wildfires with Big Data | Planetizen: The Urban Planning …

WIFIRE, a real-time and data-driven simulation, prediction, and visualization technology, combines satellite and remote sensor data to forecast the potential spread of wildfires.As InformationWeek reports, a team of researchers, technologists, and firefighters from the University of California at San Diego and the University of Maryland, with support from the National Science Foundation, have come together to create a far-reaching simulation, visualization, and […]

How Big Data Is Helping Snuff Out California's Wildfire Epidemic

California is currently in the grips of a major drought, one of the worst of this generation. The region’s lack of precipitation has not only hindered California’s agricultural industry, it’s also turned our forests into tinder. But researchers at the University of California San Diego have a potential solution: just wire up all the trees to the Internet of Things.Wildfires […]

Google Searches About Politics Predict the Stock Market – IEEE …

The number of Google searches related to business and politics can help predict falls in the stock market, researchers at the University of Warwick, in England, say.Scientists have recently begun investigating what people look for on Google and Wikipedia to help forecast the future. For instance, prior research has shown the rate at which people look up information about the […]

Google Searches Predict Stock Market Crashes – Business Insider

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Researchers from Boston University and Warwick Business School have found a way to identify what people are Google searching right before […]

How Google Searches Can Predict The Next Stock Market Crash …

When will the stock market crash? As with most everything else, the answer lies within Google.In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Warwick Business School and Boston University have created a method to identify search terms that precede a stock market crash.To help algorithms identify these patterns, the research team categorized every […]

Pinterest has big data, and it knows how to share | VentureBeat | Big …

Pinterest is no National Security Agency, but the social network has grown into a collector of plenty information. Like Twitter, Facebook, Google, and other web giants, Pinterest has developed sophisticated systems for storing the data, but it’s also built a tool that lets lots of employees get at it.In a blog today, Pinterest data engineer Mohammad Shahangian sheds light on […]

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 […]

Sensex down 45 pts in early trade; TCS stock rallies | Latest News …

Mumbai, Jul 18: The benchmark BSE Sensex fell over 45 points in early trade today as funds and retail investors booked profits after three days of gains, even as TCS shares rallied nearly 4 per cent after encouraging June quarter results amid a weak global trend.The 30-share index declined by 45.82 points, or 0.17 per cent, to 25,515.34 with realty, power, […]

The World Cup Has A Very Strange Impact On The Stock Market …

LikeTweet+1Football (soccer) is a religion of sorts in much of the world. Everything stops for the big games, and the World Cup is about as big as it gets.  Earlier this week, as everyone nervously prepared to watch what was sure to be an epic match-up between hometown favorite Brazil, and football juggernaut Germany – (Spoiler Alert – Germany basically […]

Medicine's Big Problem with Big Data: Information Hoarding | Re/code

Researchers at IBM, Berg Pharma, Memorial Sloan Kettering, UC Berkeley and other institutions are exploring how artificial intelligence and big data can be used to develop better treatments for diseases (as we explored in a separate story on Saturday).But one of the biggest challenges for making full use of these computational tools in medicine is that vast amounts of data have been locked away — or never […]