“It has been awhile since I have posted on the web and thought this was an appropriate article to share. This article focuses on technical analysis of 3 currencies and the US Dollar Index. A lot of the technical indicators I follow are universal, but the way in which they are modified and put together will not be found anywhere […]
Big Data is everywhere, and we are constantly told that it holds the answers to almost any problem we want to solve. Companies collect information on how we shop, doctors and insurance companies gather our medical test results, and governments compile logs of our phone calls and emails. In each instance, the hope is that critical insights are hidden deep […]
SMembers of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab’s Data Science community — including Rob Witoff, Tomas Soderstrom, and Andrew Hart — are here to answer our questions about using data, visualization, modeling, and just what we might be able to do with it all in space.Top image: A visualization from the IT data science team analyzing education & diplomas across JPL. The […]
Today at the O’Reilly Strata Conference in Santa Clara, Calif., ISTC Researcher Magdalena Balazinska of the University of Washington is presenting a talk entitled, “Can We Make Big Data Management Easier?” This post summarizes her talk. It highlights her team’s current and ongoing work to simplify the management of Big Data by using cloud infrastructure and delivering Big Data management […]
Smartphone app visualises two similar running routes
I am obsessed with my running app. Last week obsession became frustration verging on throw-the-phone-on-the-floor anger. Wednesday’s lunchtime 5km run was pretty good, almost back up […]
President Obama has named the people who will help John Podesta accomplish this task.I have also asked my Counselor, John Podesta, to lead a comprehensive review of big data and privacy. This group will consist of government officials who—along with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology—will reach out to privacy experts, technologists and business leaders, and look […]
People in the trading hall of a stock and securities exchange company in downtown Shanghai China. Photo by Remko Tanis CC: AT-SA-NCAfter a more than year-long freeze on new initial public offerings (IPO) while Chinese authorities reformed the country’s stock market to give more power to investors, companies were once again allowed to toss their hat into the publicly traded […]
Computer Science > Social and Information Networks
Title:
Latent Sentiment Detection in Online Social Networks: A Communications-oriented ViewAuthors:Rohit Negi,
Vinay Uday Prabhu,
Miguel Rodrigues(Submitted on 9 Jan 2014)
Abstract: In this paper, we consider the problem of latent sentiment detection in
Online Social Networks such as Twitter. We demonstrate the benefits of using
the underlying social network as an Ising prior to perform network […]
Computer Science > Social and Information Networks
Title:
Topic and Sentiment Analysis on OSNs: a Case Study of Advertising Strategies on TwitterAuthors:Shana Dacres,
Hamed Haddadi,
Matthew Purver(Submitted on 23 Dec 2013)
Abstract: Social media have substantially altered the way brands and businesses
advertise: Online Social Networks provide brands with more versatile and
dynamic channels for advertisement than traditional media (e.g., TV and radio).
Levels of […]
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 […]
