Analysis of people’s perception on Nelson Mandela’s deathWho was Nelson mandela? An anti-apartheid revolutionary, an ex-south Africa president, a war prisoner, a philanthropist, or a politician?
Madiba, as he was known by his followers, served as the president for South Africa during the 1990s. He fought apartheid and will be remembered as one of the most iconic leaders in […]
Analysis of people’s perception on Barack ObamaThe first African American president of the United States, Barack Obama, was re-elected as the president in 2013. Obama defeated Mitt Romney in the November’2012 elections and took oath as the president on 20 January’2013. Since then, the sentiments of not only the US citizens but people all over the world have kept […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Dec. 19, 2013 – Companies are recognizing the value of social media as a marketing and brand management tool, as well as customer service and support channel. Social media is also becoming a core consumer and business-user forum. Consequently, social media analytics emerged as a popular tool to measure social-site traffic, but more importantly, to obtain […]
How Big Data Is Changing The Educational Frontier By Liz ElfmanYear by year, new technologies are changing the landscape for K-12 and higher education alike. To help clarify the landscape, 1776 and Pearson brought together a group of panelists to discuss […]
As stocks keep hitting new milestones, more and more pundits worry we’re in another stock market bubble. They cite record margin debt, euphoria over initial public offerings like that of Twitter (TWTR), and, of course, the big run we’ve already seen in the major indices.And they mention the growing involvement of Main Street investors in the stock market just as […]
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 […]
Millions of previously hidden US stock trades will be revealed for the first time on Monday December 9 thanks to research from a team of academics.
Previously odd lots, which are trades of less than 100 […]
In most of the obvious ways, the stock market is closing out a very big year: The broad indexes are up more than 20% to reach new all-time highs, and the value of U.S. stocks has scarcely ever been greater relative to the size of the economy.Yet in a few subtle but telling respects, the stock market is shrinking.There are […]
Deirdre Breakenridge, Adjunct Professor at NYU and CEO of Pure Performance Communications, was part of the panel on PR and Big Data at the PRSA conference in Philadelphia in October 2013.With powerful monitoring and social media intelligence tools, pulling and analyzing large sets of data, “big data” is seen as the future of public relations. However, using the information to […]
How big data will transform media agenciesThe next few years will see clients look to aggressively leverage the big data wave that is washing over all areas of business says Chris Walton, who argues the changes will see some prosper, others disappear and new data savvy entrants arrive in the market.Of course you may well disagree that big data is […]
