“’Big data’ is characterized not only by large quantities of data, but by interrelated, interconnected and sometimes self-referential data,” explained Will Green, a graduate student in the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture.With such far-reaching scope, it comes as little surprise that he and fellow architecture students are working with biomedical engineering students to create a way to visualize large […]
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Better-than-expected earnings from Hewlett-Packard along with a couple of encouraging domestic reports guided benchmarks higher on Wednesday. Initial claims numbers and the Michigan consumer sentiment report boosted investor confidence. Meanwhile, manufacturing activity in Chicago declined in November from the previous month but came in above market expectations. The technology sector was the biggest gainer among the S&P 500 industry groups […]
Mark Daley, Daley is Associate Professor & SHARCNET Research Chair at Western UniversityBy Mark DaleyThe tools and methodologies of “Big Data” provide us with new – necessarily automated – ways to boil down vast quantities of data into a form that is easier to digest. Critical tools include algorithms for dimensionality reduction, machine learning and large-scale visualization.Beyond Big Data, many […]
Like urban bike-sharing programs everywhere, Chicago’s Divvy must contend with a key problem: due to commuting patterns, some bike stations empty out fast while others fill up quickly, leaving no space for more drop-offs.But such urban problems can be addressed with socially minded computer science, as a group of 50 Chicago high school students learned recently during a daylong conference […]
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Japan’s Nikkei15,619.13 +237.41 +1.54%China’s Shanghai2,186.12 -10.26 -0.47%Hong Kong’s Hang Seng23,684.45 -11.83 -0.05%Australia’s S&P/ASX 2005,352.80 +16.90 +0.32%The question isn’t so much what will propel stocks to seemingly new records, it’s what might stop them.Wall Street set another record […]
DENVER — Micron unveiled what it claims is a fundamentally different new processor architecture at Supercomputing 2013 that speeds up the search and analysis of complex and unstructured data streams. The sneak peak of its Automata Processor (AP) architecture was accompanied by the establishment of a Center for Automata Computing at the University of Virginia.In an interview from the conference […]
A Workshop on Fundamental & Technical Analysis of Stocks was concluded @ MITS
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“Bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs just get slaughtered!”Well, that’s how the Stock Market works. It is complex-giving you a feel of gamble when on the other hand it involves lot of calculations and speculation and the veil of […]
Chart Shows Stock Market Investor Sentiment Out of Touch with Reality
Stock-Markets / Stock Markets 2013Nov 14, 2013 – 10:22 AM GMTBy: InvestmentContrarian
Sasha Cekerevac writes: To some people in the mainstream media, last week’s advance estimate on U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) growth was seen as a positive surprise.According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the advance […]
BERKELEY In a world awash in data, UC Berkeley is meeting the flood head-on by establishing a new institute to support faculty, researchers and students in their efforts to mine this information in areas as diverse as astronomy and economics, genetics and demography.Berkeley Nobelist Saul Perlmutter describes the new Berkeley Institute for Data Science at a Nov. 12 […]
