Facebook is working to become your new best friend, getting to know you better by infusing the billion-member social network’s software with artificial intelligence.
The California-based social network giant is hiring professor Yann LeCun of NYU’s […]
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 […]
David Gurwitz: Stock Market Toppy Despite More Stimulus Coming
December 12th, 2013 John Manfreda of Wall Street for Main Street Interviews David Gurwitz of Charles Nenner research about Interest Rates, Gold, the Stock Market, Oil, Natural Gas, Economic indicators, and other topics. He even offers one free month of research to all who listen to this interview.http://charlesnenner.com/-Please visit the Wall […]
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 […]
WASHINGTON — The question about the stock market is whether the bull is a bubble. The 1990s’ “tech bubble” and the recent “housing bubble” have conditioned us to think that almost any sign of investor craziness is going to end badly — and the stock market seems a bit crazy. At the end of November, reports Wilshire Associates, stocks were […]
“’Big data’ is characterized not only by large quantities of data, but by interrelated, interconnected and sometimes self-referential data,” explained Will Green, a graduate student in the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture.With such far-reaching scope, it comes as little surprise that he and fellow architecture students are working with biomedical engineering students to create a way to visualize large […]
Stocks are at all-time highs, and anyone invested in the market has reason to be happy.But that’s just it. It’s only the people who are investing who have gotten a piece of this 3.5-year-long bull market, which has seen the S&P 500 explode 170%According to Gallup’s annual Economics and Personal Finance survey, which was conducted in April, just 52% of […]
TweetThe theme of Big Data has spawned a tremendous amount of attention and investor interest in recent years. While much of the big data hype has focused on the storage, structured and unstructured processing technologies, London based investment bank GP Bullhound predicted that some of the most exciting developments are in the fields of Predictive Analytics and Advanced Visualization.The “Exabyte […]
