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Vikings Stock Market Report: End Of Year Prospectus – Daily …

The Vikings end the Metrodome era with a win over a Lions team that was even more disappointing than the Vikings this year.So the 2013 season and the Metrodome era come to a simultaneous end. The Vikings beat the Lions 14-13, and we now move outside for two years before we get to move into our new home, sweet […]

Indian consumers prefer holiday abroad this festive season, IBM …

Bangalore : A new IBM Social Sentiment analysis of 250,000  online  conversations  reveals  the  travel  preferences of Indian consumers  –  which  point to consumer interest and enthusiasm for spending holidays  abroad.  The preferred international holiday destination for 2013 is London and preferred domestic holiday destination is GoaAccording   to  the  latest  IBM  Social  Sentiment  analysis,  travel  and hospitality  was  trending as […]

Big Data Marketing's Next Frontier: Paid Search – Search Engine …

It’s tough to be a marketer in today’s always-changing online environment. It seems that every time we master one new channel, a new and more “promising” channel emerges.We witnessed a prime example of this with the May 2012 introduction of product listing ads (PLAs). In the face of quickly moving, high-cost changes, marketers were left facing the difficult calculus of […]

What's The Big Deal With Big Data? Breaking Down The Year's …

Jeff Anaya is part of the marketing team with Viralheat, the social media marketing suite for business.Big Data is one of the latest phenomenon to hit tech news. This is no surprise as experts in the industry are constantly abuzz about the benefits of Big Data on marketers and any business trying to get deeper insights about their consumers. Yet, for […]

Chat Bots and Big Data – Hyperallergic

OAKLAND, Calif. — With our data-driven lives, so much of what we do can be seen through the lens of algorithms. One algorithm can predict if your relationship will fail by using your Facebook data. Another can anticipate movie profits thanks to tweet patterns. There’s one for predicting red light runners based on the car’s rate of deceleration. Or even when […]

Big-data strategies could boost revenue 25%, survey suggests – The …

Almost half of the firms surveyed in the Asia-Pacific region believe that big data can improve revenue by 25 per cent or more, with HDS projecting a potential US$250-billion (Bt8 trillion) revenue increase among the more than 500 companies surveyed. However, more than half of firms have made little or no progress in their big-data strategies. Wikipedia defines “big data” […]

NYC think-tank devoted to critical analysis of Big Data seeks fellows …

Outstanding social scientist danah boyd has founded a new thinktank (or “think/do-tank”) called The Data & Society Research Institute, based in New York City, and devoted to critical analysis of big data, and “social, technical, ethical, legal, and policy issues that are emerging because of data-centric technological development.” It’s well-funded, with an exciting mission, and they’re hiring.

Data & Society is […]

The stock market is not the real economy – Students For Liberty

The following was written by Cory Massimino. In the years following the 2008 financial crisis the stock market, unlike the rest of the economy, has been outstanding. Last Monday the Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index reached record highs following continued confidence in the Federal Reserve’s expansionary monetary policy. Shortly after trading began, the S&P hit […]