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Robert Litan
Dow Jones Industrial Average over 2014.
The Wall Street Journal
With the stock market’s unexpected boom toward the end of 2014, what better way to ring in the new year than to reexamine that age-old question: What drives stock returns? Is it earnings’ growth fundamentals or short-term momentum swings in investor behavior?
The answer matters because most forecasters expect the economy to […]
Think about this for a moment. The stock market is comprised of thousands of companies doing business in the economy. Therefore, it only makes sense that the value of the stock market should be a reflection of the economy. As the economy ebbs and flows, so should the values of the companies that are operating within it. This idea can […]
There was great economic news on Monday – for somebody.
Monday morning the stock market passed another historic milestone, as the S&P 500 composite index briefly passed the 2,000 mark before ending the day on a record-breaking high. That barrier had symbolic value for many investors, although perhaps not as much as the once-unimaginable goal of seeing the Dow Jones Industrial […]
In current medical practice, newborns are typically taken to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) if the mother’s temperature rises above 100.4 degrees because that may signal an increased risk of neonatal sepsis, a bacterial blood infection. With the emergence of Big Data and evidence-based medical practices, many infants are spared that trip due to an innovative metric that allows […]
In current medical practice, newborns are typically taken to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) if the mother’s temperature rises above 100.4 degrees because that may signal an increased risk of neonatal sepsis, a bacterial blood infection. With the emergence of Big Data and evidence-based medical practices, many infants are spared that trip due to an innovative metric that allows […]
By Zhicheng Liu*and Jeffrey Heer, University of WashingtonOne acknowledged benefit of using visualizations to explore data is to support interactive analysis at the speed of thought: starting from a visual overview of the data, analysts can interactively drill down, filter and change encoding to examine the data from different perspectives.When dealing with large volumes of data, the time taken for query processing, […]
Markets ended in the green on Friday as news of Russia terminating its military exercise near its border with Ukraine offset concerns about U.S airstrikes over Iraq. The Dow registered its largest gain in last 4 months on Friday. Friday’s gains helped erode all of the week’s losses as geopolitical tensions and rate hike fears offset upbeat economic and earnings […]
Clean PowerPublished on August 2nd, 2014 | by Guest Contributor2
The Next Frontier For Beyond The Grid Solar Markets: Big Data
August 2nd, 2014 by Guest Contributorby Justin Guay
When it comes to energy access, we’re fond of saying small is big.
That’s because all those small-scale solar lanterns, solar home systems, and solar mini-grids add up to a very big market. But the size of […]
By Magdalena Balazinska, University of WashingtonAt the recent SIGMOD 2014 conference, we demonstrated the Myria Big Data Management and Analytics Service.Myria is a cloud service developed and operated by the University of Washington Database Group and eScience Institute. The Myria design meets requirements from real users and complex workflows, especially in science. Myria provides a unique combination of features:Myria is offered […]
Benchmarks ended Wednesday’s listless trading session little changed despite upbeat private sector hiring numbers. Investors refrained from betting ahead of the nonfarm payroll data for June that is scheduled for release on Thursday. Investors also kept an eye on Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen’s comments on financial stability.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to […]
