Home » Best Practices, Big Data, Featured, Surveillance, TwitterThe Power of Social Sentiment: Recent Icahn tweet drives investor behaviorBy John Schoeler16 June 2014No CommentOur good friends and partners at Finmaven posted an excellent blog post last week regarding a tweet that was published on Friday. June 6 from high profile activist Carl Icahn disclosing his 9% position in Family Dollar. […]
Last week, the White House released its report on big data and its privacy implications, the result of a 90-day study commissioned by President Obama during his January 17 speech on NSA surveillance reforms. Now that we’ve had a chance to read the report we’d like to share our thoughts on what we liked, what we didn’t, and what we […]
The last two times when margin debt reversed and fell after a record-breaking spike, all hell broke loose. In 2000, it was simultaneous. In 2007, it was delayed by a few months. Today, on the surface, everything is still hunky-dory. The Dow is just fractions below its all-time high that it set on Wednesday. But beneath the surface, parts of […]
22 pages into the White House report on Big Data, this paragraph appears:Government keeps the peace. It makes sure our food is safe to eat. It keeps our air and water clean. The laws and regulations it promulgates order economic and political life. Big data technology stands to improve nearly all the services the public sector delivers.It presents several claims […]
