A full house for the NCDS Big Data Career EventAs a leader in the growing and evolving field of data science, the National Consortium for Data Science (NCDS) works to share knowledge and recruit a new generation of data researchers to innovate and solve challenges in organizing and managing data.To further this goal, the NCDS hosted a student networking event […]
Books by Balkinization Bloggers
Joseph Fishkin, Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity (Oxford University Press, 2014)
Mark A. Graber, A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism (Oxford University Press, 2013)
John Mikhail, Elements of Moral Cognition: Rawls’ Linguistic Analogy and the […]
Tell Us What You Think About Big Data and Privacy
John PodestaMarch 20, 2014 03:46 PM EDT Share This PostIn January, President Obama charged me with leading a […]
By Mike Dyce – Mar 19th, 2014 at 3:08 pm Mandatory Credit: Matthew Emmons-USA TODAY Sports ESPN’s College GameDay panelist Lee Corso showed up at the New York Stock Exchange this week. What he was doing there, I’m not exactly sure why he was there but I’m less sure about why he is signing a Hulk hand. I […]
Can Tweets And Facebook Posts Predict Stock Behavior? “Like” And RT If You Think So
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March 19, 2014 Another social media data analysis firm, Social Market Analytics, used its coverage of 400,000 Twitter (Nasdaq:TWTR) accounts last August to tell its clients that positive chatter on Apple was percolating just before legendary trader Carl Icahn issued a Twitter statement stating he […]
We may be heading into the next phase of big data. The early bets and stand-alone products seem to be moving rapidly into more sophisticated uses and broader corporate alliances.On Wednesday, three separate announcements illustrated the trend. SAP, Germany’s giant business planning and analytics software company, said it is putting a rich version of its real-time analysis software online. SAP […]
The Food and Drug Administration is soliciting bids for a contractor that will monitor social media and map out the peaks and troughs of drug and medical device risk-based chatter. The FDA is targeting blogs, forums, message boards, wikis, and podcasts as potential new opportunities to engage the public.The focus of the project will be to help the FDA evaluate […]
Saul Loeb/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesJohn Podesta, a counselor to the president, said a goal of reviewing privacy and big data was to determine how the public and private sectors might maximize the flow of information necessary for innovation while minimizing potential privacy risks to individuals. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — With the success of its free open online course system, called […]
A reporter is zooming around downtown Little Rock, zipping past the soon-to-be-renamed Metropolitan Tower and down Spring Street toward the Arkansas River. As she prepares to swoop over the Old State House, her legs start to buckle and nausea strikes.Her tour guide lets up on the controls, slowing the visitor’s wingless flight and letting her regain her balance.For a novice […]
Wikimedia CommonsTwo academics from the University of Virgina got a hold of the trading records of SEC employees — then they built a mock hedge fund to see how it would do. The results are all in a paper presetned at UVA’s Darden School of Business.
The academics, Emory University professor Shivaram Rajgopal and Georgia State University accounting PhD candidate Roger […]
