Big Data focus for University | News | – University of Edinburgh

Big Data focus for UniversityEdinburgh’s expertise in handling Big Data is to be strengthened with the appointment of medical informatics expert Professor Andrew Morris.His appointment as the University’s new Vice-Principal of Data Science will see him work closely with colleagues to create cross-disciplinary opportunities for education, research and innovation in the field.Professor Morris will advise the Principal and senior management […]

Nanotechnology and big data – the next industrial revolution?

Posted: Sep 01, 2014

Nanotechnology and big data – the next industrial revolution?

(Nanowerk News) A report commissioned by the Lloyds Register Foundation, reviewing the potential implications of nanotechnology on the safety […]

Stock Market 6 Month Cycle :: The Market Oracle :: Financial Markets …

Stock Market 6 Month CycleStock-Markets / Stock Markets 2014Aug 26, 2014 – 12:51 PM GMTBy: Ed_CarlsonWith the passage of the final high of the 2009 bull market high in the Dow (precisely forecast by the Lindsay model on July 17) our attention now turns to the S&P 500. Unfortunately, Lindsay’s methods only apply to the Dow so we must use […]

Using Big Data to Predict Mortality in ICU Patients | Intel Science …

Today, Monday, August 25 at the 20th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining in New York, ISTC for Big Data researchers will present a paper entitled “Unfolding Physiological State: Mortality Modelling in Intensive Care Units.”  The paper is an important work that looks at clinical notes – the observational, timely and knowledge-based information captured by nurses, doctors […]

Finally, a Use for Big Data: Cracking the Voynich Manuscript …

The Voynich Manuscript might have been dropped to Earth by aliens; it might be a medieval cipher whose mystery outlived anyone who had the key; it also might be a prank and moneymaking scheme by some haggard rare bookseller. But whatever the book actually is, Brazilian scientists are pretty certain that the manuscript’s text—which is written in a language and […]

The Emerging Pitfalls Of Nowcasting With Big Data | MIT Technology …

Earlier this year, the European Central Bank held a two-day workshop on big data and how it can be used for forecasting. The headline speaker was Hal Varian, chief economist at Google and a number cruncher of rock star status.
Varian outlined the power of Google Trends and Google Correlate, the company’s big data tools. “With Google Trends, you type in […]

Stock Market News for August 18, 2014 – Zacks Investment Research

Benchmarks ended Friday’s session on a mixed note after renewed tension between Ukraine and Russia unnerved investors. Ukraine forces destroyed part of a Russian armored column after it entered Ukrainian soil. However, benchmarks recorded their second-straight week of gains.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s Ahead of Wall Street articleThe Dow Jones […]

Fighting Wildfires with Big Data | Planetizen: The Urban Planning …

WIFIRE, a real-time and data-driven simulation, prediction, and visualization technology, combines satellite and remote sensor data to forecast the potential spread of wildfires.As InformationWeek reports, a team of researchers, technologists, and firefighters from the University of California at San Diego and the University of Maryland, with support from the National Science Foundation, have come together to create a far-reaching simulation, visualization, and […]

Gauging The Stock Market With The Tocalino Index | Seeking Alpha

SummaryHere I’m gauging the performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average with the Help of the Tocalino Index (applying demographics to a variation on Arthur Melvin Okun’s Misery Index).
The point that stands out recently is the noticeable gap between the rapid rise of the Dow Jones index and the lagging behavior of my own indicator from 2009 onward.
The market seems […]

Walking in a data-wonderland: Big Data meets virtual reality …

Walking in a data-wonderland: Big Data meets virtual reality Mike Wheatley | August 12thREAD MOREOne of the biggest challenges with Big Data is that the human mind is just too feeble to comprehend such vast amounts of information. Our brains just become overwhelmed when you’re talking petabytes upon petabytes of data, but EU researchers think they’ve hit upon a way […]