I don’t agree with the slow-growth-indefinitely forecasts.I’ve long said that, until global deleveraging is completed, gross domestic product will continue to grow by about 2 percent annually. I’ve also noted that reducing debt levels after a financial crisis, especially one caused by a borrowing binge, normally takes about a decade. This episode is eight years old, and at the rate […]
A man pushes a music box outside of the headquarters of the National bank of Greece in Athens. Photograph: JOHN KOLESIDIS/REUTERS
European shares fell on Friday after Greek bank deposits slumped to a decade low, raising fears that the country is heading towards a disorderly exit from the eurozone.Following a warning on Thursday from Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary […]
Posted Saturday, January 10, 2015 @ 8:14 pm by Dr. WishGMI Sell signal remains in place; very cautious as bonds march higherGMI2/6GMI-24/8What is the GMI?WORDEN T210846%My indicators weakened on Friday and so the GMI Sell signal remains in place. My more sensitive measure of the short term trend of the QQQ also remains down, now having reached 6 days. I […]
The Transaction Processing Council (TPC), working with Cloudera, recently announced the new TPCx-HS benchmark, a good first step toward providing a Big Data benchmark.In this interview by Roberto Zicari with Francois Raab, the original author of the TPC-C Benchmark, and Yanpei Chen, a Performance Engineer at Cloudera, the interviewees share their thoughts on the next step for benchmarks that reflect real-world use cases.This […]
The Big Data Analytics World Championship involves two online qualification rounds and a Live World Finals event held in Texas, USA in October 2014. Free registration for KDnuggets readers.
TEXATA Big Data Analytics World ChampionshipsOnline Rounds
Participants from more than 100 countries will compete individually in two online qualification rounds. All you need is a computer, internet connection and […]
The general consensus among most people who seriously study markets is that technical analysis is mostly garbage.
After all, how can a investing method that completely disregards a company’s fundamental business prospects in favor of tracking its stock price over time possibly ever get anything right except by chance?
In fact, the most wide-ranging study conducted to date […]
Apologies for cross-posting,
Submissions are invited for the 3rd Workshop on Issues of Sentiment Discovery
and Opinion Mining (WISDOM), an ICML14 workshop exploring the new frontiers of
big data computing for opinion mining through machine-learning techniques and
sentiment learning methods. For more information, please visit:
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The distillation of knowledge from social media is an extremely difficult task
as the content of today’s Web, while perfectly suitable […]
Writing in the Financial Times, Tim Harford (The Undercover Economist Strikes Back, Adapt, etc) offers a nuanced, but ultimately damning critique of Big Data and its promises. Harford’s point is that Big Data’s premise is that sampling bias can be overcome by simply sampling everything, but the actual data-sets that make up Big Data are anything but comprehensive, and are […]
Apologies for cross-posting,
Submissions are invited for MASALA (Machine-learning Approaches to Sentiment
Analysis and Learning Algorithms), an ICML14 workshop exploring the new
frontiers of big data computing for opinion mining through machine-learning
techniques and sentiment learning methods. For more information, please visit:
http://sentic.net/masala
RATIONALE
The distillation of knowledge from social media is an extremely difficult task
as the content of today’s Web, while perfectly suitable for human consumption,
remains […]
Print PDF“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”, the famous quote by Henry Ford. Nowadays, Ford uses big data to find out what their customers want and to develop better cars faster. Developing a product that requires 20.000 – 25.000 different parts to develop, big data seems to be the only way forward […]
