Why is Spanish social media sentiment so down on the Estado de la Unión (SOTU) address even though President Obama has an overwhelming likeable sentiment?Although the President urged Congress to pass the immigration reform bill this year in his “Year of Action” plan, was his call for action underplayed? Are the minimum wage reform proposals short-sighted? Is the economic […]
A blog post released by the White House this afternoon suggests the fallout from leaker Edward Snowden’s disclosures last year about the National Security Agency’s widespread surveillance projects will spread far beyond questions about government monitoring.A presidential working group is to examine how large-scale data collection and analysis by the private and public sectors for purposes outside of intelligence or […]
In the movie adaption of Moneyball, Michael Lewis’ book about the Oakland Athletics, a nebbishy Jonah Hill describes the concept of moneyball like this to Brad Pitt’s beleaguered Billy Beane: “People who run ball clubs, they think in terms of buying players. Your goal shouldn’t be to buy players, your goal should be to buy wins. And in order to […]
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Facebook (FB) is set to report earnings on Jan. 29, and FB stock investors need to prepare for some bad news.Facebook has seen slowing growth in its user base in key western markets, and there’s a very good chance that this earnings report could be the first […]
Ben Bernanke’s gift to the markets on Wednesday December 18, 2013 in my review was really no big surprise. What would have been a surprise was an announcement that in the coming year the Fed was actually going to move to a neutral monetary policy. But, as I stated in my last article, “now is not the time to exit […]
SharePinterestFacebookEmailFollowing last week’s revelations concerning President Obama’s broken promises about the benefits of Obamacare, the president’s poll numbers have fallen dramatically.But has the president seen the same blowback on social media? Using the analytics tool Crimson Hexagon, we tracked the sentiment surrounding Obamacare over the last week.Of the 8,869 relevant social media posts, support for the president’s healthcare law has […]
There has been a lot of talk lately that ‘Big Data’ is just BS. Peter Houston looks beyond the hype to reveal what companies should be focusing on.Peter Houston Do you remember the first time you heard the phrase ‘Big Data’? Chances are, unless data’s what you do, it was last year. Big Data became big when the World Economic […]
US stock markets rose after incoming Fed chair Janet Yellen calmed fears the central bank might begin to taper its bond-buying programme before next year. Photograph: Richard Drew/APAmerican stock indices the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq ended lower on Monday while the Dow failed to close above its milestone level of 16,000 as stocks were sold off late following […]
David Plouffe, 2008 campaign manager for Barack Obama, isn’t going to miss this opportunity. When the Dow Jones hit 16,000 for the first time Monday morning, Plouffe tweeted, “DJIA 6443 March 6 2009. DJIA 16000+ Nov 18 2013. That terrible socialist, @BarackObama.”The Dow Jones industrial average hit 16,000 for the first time this morning, and the Nasdaq began within 15 […]
Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in collaboration with the Networking and Information Technology R&D (NITRD) program hosted Data to Knowledge to Action: Building New Partnerships. The event was a progress report of sorts on the Obama Administration’s “Big Data Research and Development Initiative” announced in 2012.OSTP Director John Holdren opened the event stressing the […]
