Originally published August 29, 2014 at 5:41 AM | Page modified August 30, 2014 at 3:01 AM
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index delivered its fourth record high in five days Friday, ending with the biggest monthly gain since February.The milestone-crushing run capped a week when the S&P eclipsed the 2,000-point mark for the first time. And the index […]
Benchmarks settled in the red zone following reports that Russia has increased forces along its border with Ukraine. Investors’ apprehensions about a rate hike following strong economic data also weighed on markets. Dow’s three-digit decline eroded all of Monday’s gains, while fellow benchmarks also lost heavily.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s […]
In a paper published online today in the journal Scientific Reports, published by Nature, Northeastern researchers Evan Kodra and Auroop Ganguly found that while global temperature is indeed increasing, so too is the variability in temperature extremes. For instance, while each year’s average hottest and coldest temperatures will likely rise, those averages will also tend to fall within a wider […]
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 […]
Get Forex buy/sell signals directly to your email and by SMS.To learn more click hereThe natural gas markets fell rather drastically during the course of the previous week as we broke down below the $4.30 handle finally. This was significant support for the consolidation that we had seen most of the year, and the fact that we broke below there […]
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Published on May 24th, 2014 |
by Jo Borrás
Was Washington’s GM Stock Sale a Case of Insider Trading?
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Litecoin goes beyond 14 this morning, only to be pegged back with a firm bear tug. Let’s take a closer look at the current LTC/USD hourly chart below (click to expand): I asked the question in yesterday’s analysis, “Will the bulls have enough to break the this latest resistance?” Well, the market has unequivocally answered […]
I had an interesting briefing a few weeks ago from Bottlenose, which sells what it calls a real-time “trend intelligence” system. The general idea is almost boringly straightforward: monitor events as they occur and pick out new and interesting information. But the technology to make this happen is mind-bogglingly complex, since it includes real-time ingestion of diverse […]
In their best-selling 2013 book Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, authors Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier selected Google Flu Trends (GFT) as the lede of chapter one. They explained how Google’s algorithm mined five years of web logs, containing hundreds of billions of searches, and created a predictive model utilizing 45 search […]
LinkedIn0Google+0Facebook0Sentiment Analysis (also known as opinion mining) refers to the use of natural language processing, text analysis and computational linguistics to identify and extract subjective information in source materials. – Wikipedia.orgThere are two models widely used in automatic sentiment analysis.Linguistic ResourcesThe model most frequently used in commercial applications is based on linguistic resources and the other is based on machine […]
