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Earth Science Data Analysis in the Era of Big Data | Earthzine

Earth Science Data Analysis in the Era of Big DataBy Kuo, et al , posted on April 4th, 2014 in Informatics Theme K.-S. Kuo1,2, T. L. Clune2, R. Ramachandran31. Bayesics, LLC, Bowie, Maryland2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland3. NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AlabamaAn illustration of data. Image Credit: r2hox.Anyone with even a cursory interest in information […]

BTC/USD Technical Analysis – 26th March 2014 – Digital Currency …

After the rise from 555, Bitcoin continues to range between two important Fib levels. Let’s take a closer look at the BTC/USD chart on the thirty minute timeframe: I’ve performed the Fibonacci study from the low of the past fortnight at 555, to this week’s high at 590. Sometimes, it can be a bit of a discretionary […]

Why Do You Spread This Message? Understanding Users …

Abstract
Twitter has been increasingly used for spreading messages about campaigns. Such campaigns try to gain followers through their Twitter accounts, influence the followers and spread messages through them. In this paper, we explore the relationship between followers sentiment towards the campaign topic and their rate of retweeting of messages generated by the campaign. Our analysis with followers of multiple social-media […]

Re: Technical Analysis and Individual Investors – All Star Charts with …

Re: Technical Analysis and Individual InvestorsPosted by JC Parets
on March 19th, 2014

Share on StockTwitsI’m going to keep this short and sweet. I don’t think it’s worth dedicating more than a couple of minutes to commenting this study. I’m referring to last month’s release of a paper written by Arvid Hoffman and Hersh Shefrin titled, […]

'Big data' collection from Google can be misleading: Study | Latest …

A significant research has put ‘big data’ collections from platforms such as Google, Twitter and Facebook in the dock, stating that campaigns and companies can manipulate these platforms to ensure their products or issues are trending.To cement their view, authors examined Google’s data-aggregating tool Google Flu Trend (GFT) which was designed to provide real-time monitoring of flu cases around the […]

First large-scale study links stock market volatility to mental disorders

Falling stock prices lead to increased hospitalisations for mental disorders, according to new research published today in the journal Health Policy and Planning.Researchers assessed the relationship between stock price movements and mental disorders using data on daily hospitalisations for mental disorders in Taiwan over 4,000 days between 1998 and 2009. They found that a 1000-point fall in the Taiwan Stock Exchange […]

S-Store: Real-Time Analytics Meets Transaction Processing | Intel …

By Nesime Tatbul, Intel Labs and MITManaging high-speed data streams generated in real time is an integral part of today’s big data applications. In a wide range of domains from social media to financial trading, there is a growing need to seamlessly support incremental processing as new data is generated. At the same time, the system must ingest some or […]

Aaii sentiment survey: pessimism rises to highest level since august

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hackny/Short-term pessimism among individual investors rose to levels not seen last since last August, according to the latest AAII Sentiment Survey. Meanwhile, bullish sentiment fell for the fifth time in six weeks. Bullish sentiment, expectations that stock prices will rise over the next six months, fell 4.3 percentage points to 27.9 percent. This is the lowest level of optimism registered […]

Is The Stock Market's Smoothest Ride Priced Like A Cadillac …

By David L. Allison, CFA, CIPMHere’s a sure-fire way to get gouged: Walk onto a car lot, ask a salesperson to point out the vehicle with the smoothest ride, then purchase that vehicle regardless of price.It sounds reckless, but this is not far from the logic individual investors are using when shopping for the smoothest ride in the stock market.You […]

10 rules of technical trading – Futures

There are two major types of analysis normally used to forecast the performance of commodity futures: fundamental and technical. Fundamental analysis examines the supply and demand factors that influence price, while technical analysis is the study of price and price behavior. The world of technical analysis is complex, but with a working knowledge can be applied to virtually any market. […]