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Stock Market News for February 06, 2015 – February 6, 2015 – Zacks …

Rise in oil prices, new deals and upbeat quarterly results helped benchmarks settle in the green on Thursday. While rise in crude oil prices fueled gains in material and energy shares, Pfizer’s plan to acquire Hospira boosted healthcare stocks. Encouraging earnings results from O’Reilly Automotive and Estée Lauder Cos also added to the bullish sentiment. Meanwhile, investors shrugged off discouraging […]

The Big Data Problem Will Also Be A Problem For Science 2.0

George Dyson. Credit: edge.orgIf you read about Big Data for very long, a quote from science historian George Dyson is sure to come up: “Big data is what happened when the cost of keeping information became less than the cost of throwing it away.”That will be a platform to talk about the challenges, etc.But there is a bigger problem that […]