For many businesses, big data is superfluous. Except, a recently-published paper on the mathematics of big data reveals, when it isn’t. It turns out there is a kind of data that, like black holes or evil wizards of Middle Earth, only becomes more powerful the larger it grows. What’s more, suggest researchers Enric Junqué de Fortuny, David Martens and Foster […]
Now that January has disappointed, market forecasts for 2014 have become less favorable (i.e. “January Effect”). Last month I forecast a 16% loss in 2014 while others were forecasting gains. I’m not saying “I told you so” but I would like to add some more justification for my prediction.As shown in the next graph, Wall Street is forecasting gains of […]
Understand the business value in “human data” – emotion, intent, connection – in online, social, and enterprise sources via text, speech, video and social-network analytics. Early bird till Jan 31 + KDnuggets discount.By Seth Grimes, Jan 28, 2014.
I wanted to make sure you know about the next Sentiment Analysis Symposium, March 5-6, 2014 in New York. The […]
As long as there have been markets, people have been driven by greed to make irrational investment decisions. When enough people get in on the action, valuations — the prices of securities — go haywire, soaring to obscene heights and then crashing in a shower of crushed dreams.Chasing performance, taking on excessive risk and selling at inopportune times are all […]
On Monday, Apple announced record quarterly sales for the iPhone and iPad, an unexpected uptick in Mac sales, and a profit of $13.1 billion on revenue of $57.6 billion.
None of this has impressed Wall Street. The company’s stock price was down around 8 percent in early Tuesday trading.
So what’s the problem? The experts were expecting Apple to announce iPhone sales […]
Academic researchers and corporate managers often seek experts or collaborators in a particular field to enhance their knowledge or maximize the talents of their workforce. Harnessing that data, however, can be a challenge. Researchers at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) have devised recommendation systems for expert and […]
5th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis (WASSA 2014)**************************************************************************************************http://optima.jrc.it/wassa2014/*******************************************************BACKGROUND*******************************************************Research in automatic Subjectivity and Sentiment Analysis (SSA), as subtasks of Affective Computing and Natural Language Processing (NLP), has flourished in the past years. The growth in interest in these tasks was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that made it possible […]
It’s a funny old world when the home address of capitalism takes its orders from 1.3 billion communists who are even cheaper than IKEA, but dodgy manufacturing data in China did indeed set the tone for a terrible session on Wall Street. US stock markets thus continued their difficult start to 2014, with a triple-digit drop in the Dow (INDEXDJX:.DJI) […]
Print PDFThe Oxford University knows how to take Big Data forward and recently started with a new initiative, which is funded by the Li Ka Shing Foundation. The Li Ka Shing Centre for Health Information and Discovery connects Big Data and latest technologies to make new discoveries. The centre brings together two different themes; research in Big Data and the […]
“”It has been 408 days since the last 10% correction in the MSCI World index, the 8th-longest period on record,” writes Andrew Lapthorne, global head of quantitative strategy at Société Générale, in a note to clients today.”However, simply not having a correction for a long time does not necessarily imply impending doom for equities; we find no relationship between time […]
