Yes, we have heard it all before. A new information technology comes along and it is lauded as a sure fire tool for solving intractable societal problems. We heard it with radio, computers and the Internet. And now the buzz is all about Big Data. The thing is, this time it could be true.Big Data (the collection and analysis of […]
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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 […]
What’s incredible about genomics is its ability to get a lot of data really fast in a way that can be analyzed in very useful ways. So when you think about a museum – that is where our culture stores and preserves all the samples of all the rest of the types of life on the planet. We have […]
Building a Smarter Planet takes people who are passionate about using technology to improve the world and who are eager to innovate and take risks. During the past year, we profiled eight of these “People for a Smarter Planet,” putting the spotlight on researchers, engineers, inventors and innovators who are focused on the future.They include people like Lisa Seacat DeLuca, a […]
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Apple is the biggest tech company in the world and one of the most tradable. And that’s mostly because Apple is subject to a constant barage of events, both newsworthy and malicious. But also because Apple stock is one of the most widely held and traded stocks on the planet.When it comes to liquidity and tight spreads, there are few […]
Mark Daley, Daley is Associate Professor & SHARCNET Research Chair at Western UniversityBy Mark DaleyThe tools and methodologies of “Big Data” provide us with new – necessarily automated – ways to boil down vast quantities of data into a form that is easier to digest. Critical tools include algorithms for dimensionality reduction, machine learning and large-scale visualization.Beyond Big Data, many […]
