By David Maier, Portland State UniversityIf you are reading this blog, then you’ve already heard of the Three V’s of Big Data (Volume, Velocity and Variety). While the V’s are a way to characterize Big Data, I’ve been thinking about what enables new applications of Big Data. Why is a certain application appearing now, rather than […]
MT4BD 2014 Call For Papers
Workshop on New Methods and Tools for Big Data (MT4BD-2014)
http://mt4bd2014.ceid.upatras.gr
Island of Rhodes, Greece, September 19-21, 2014
We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to
MT4BD 2014 – held as a part of the 10th International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI 2014).
The provision of large amount of data from various […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dismal earnings results and weak forecasts weighed heavily on the benchmarks once again, dragging them down on Friday. Markets finished in the red to post their worst monthly performance in over a year. It was also the benchmarks’ first monthly decline since last August. Energy and consumer discretionary sectors were among the biggest losers on Friday.For a look at the […]
A “dark pool” may sound like a mysterious water source or an untapped oil well. In reality, it’s a finance term: Dark pools are privately run stock markets that do not show participants’ orders to the public before trades happen. They are a growing presence in stock trading, now representing at least one-eighth, and possibly much more, of all stock […]
Retirement » Why Investors Bail Out Of The Stock MarketLife is full of risks. Crossing the street can be dicey, driving is unquestionably perilous and nearly everything you eat may cause cancer or heart disease. We bravely engage in these potentially life-threatening behaviors on a daily basis with barely a thought.When it comes to taking stock market risk, though, the […]
As computers enter ever more areas of our daily lives, the amount of data they produce has grown enormously. But for this “big data” to be useful it must first be analyzed, meaning it needs to be stored in such a way that it can be accessed quickly when required.
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Understand the business value in “human data” – emotion, intent, connection – in online, social, and enterprise sources via text, speech, video and social-network analytics. Early bird till Jan 31 + KDnuggets discount.By Seth Grimes, Jan 28, 2014.
I wanted to make sure you know about the next Sentiment Analysis Symposium, March 5-6, 2014 in New York. The […]
