Defense ITBig data really needs a ‘big mechanism,’ DARPA saysBy George Leopold
Aug 06, 2014
A Defense Department research program seeks to leapfrog advanced big data analytics by developing automated search technologies that could help explain the causes and effects that drive complex systems.The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched its “big mechanism” initiative earlier this year with the goal of developing […]
We discuss examples of discovery through sentiment mining, current trends, innovative applications, important soft skills, and more. By Anmol Rajpurohit, @hey_anmol, Aug 5, 2014.Vita Markman is currently employed as a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn, where she works on various natural language processing applications such as performing sentiment analysis of customer feedback and extracting relevant information from job postings. Before joining […]
Nothing boosts the prospects of page hits on a blog – or funding of a grant proposal – like the phrase “big data.” Why are we enamored with “big data”? It’s not the magic bullet of management or policy: It’s made money for a few companies, but has backfired bigtime in the arenas of national security (NSA surveillance scandals) and […]
In a paper published online today in the journal Scientific Reports, published by Nature, Northeastern researchers Evan Kodra and Auroop Ganguly found that while global temperature is indeed increasing, so too is the variability in temperature extremes. For instance, while each year’s average hottest and coldest temperatures will likely rise, those averages will also tend to fall within a wider […]
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Researchers from Boston University and Warwick Business School have found a way to identify what people are Google searching right before […]
SummaryGolf participation has been in decline since 2003.
Main causes are generational preferences and falling real incomes.
Ways to trade this trend are shorting Callaway and Clubcorp.
Golf is in trouble in the United States. The main reasons for this is the lack of adoption of the sport amongst the 18-30 demographic due to falling youth income and an increasing lack of patience […]
A new research has come up with a method that automatically identifies the warning signs on search data on Google before subsequent stock market crashes.The research conducted by a team of researchers from Warwick Business School and Boston University shows that increases in searches for business and politics preceded falls in the stock market.Chester Curme, Research Fellow at Warwick Business […]
10:26p ET Monday, July 28, 2014Dear Friend of GATA and Gold:Acknowledging that the usefulness of technical analysis is increasingly doubted as market manipulation intensifies, newsletter writer and technical analyst Tim W. Wood notes today that manipulation is as old as markets themselves and quotes various authorities to the effect that manipulation cannot long defeat any market’s “primary trend.”But Wood’s authorities […]
How AIR wants to use big-data on our children
Published July 28, 2014 | By JaKell Sullivan
http://www.air.org/resource/long-story-short-how-are-rules-using-big-data-changingWatch this video of Julia Lane, Institute Fellow at American Institutes for Research (AIR)—Utah’s testing agent for SAGE tests. The following are excerpts of some of her quotes, with my translations:“It’s impossible to get informed consent about collecting big-data.”… (TRANSLATION-”We can’t wait for you, the […]
You may not need big data after all | #MITIQ Alan McStravick | July 23rdREAD MOREThe business buzzword over the past few years has been “Big Data”. Companies are trying to figure our how they can leverage their collected data and translate it into a competitive advantage. However, according to the Director of MIT’s Sloan School Center for Information Systems […]
