BERKELEY It was standing room only in Sutardja Dai Hall’s Banatao Auditorium, with many more watching monitors in the overflow section, at Thursday’s high-energy launch of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science.On hand to celebrate (left to right): Vice Chancellor for Research Graham Fleming, Moore Foundation’s Vicki Chandler, Chancellor Dirks and BIDS director Saul Perlmutter (Peg Skorpinski photo)Right […]
Major Stock Market Crash In January? It’s Going To Be A Whole Lot Worse Than In The 1930s
Chart: http://modernsurvivalblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/major-stock-market-crash-in-january.gifIs there a major financial crash in our near future? You must check out this stunning analogy between the current day Dow Jones Industrial Index compared with the time period 1928-1929 leading up to the memorable stock market crash…The pattern of stock price […]
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 […]
Dismal corporate earnings reports and lower oil prices dragged the major indices into negative territory on Tuesday. Among the S&P 500 industry groups, the technology sector gained the most. Financials, followed by utilities stocks ended on the losing side.For a look at the issues currently facing the markets, make sure to read today’s Ahead of Wall Street articleThe Dow Jones […]
QuickWire: 3 Universities Join to Make Big Data More UsefulNovember 12, 2013, 5:06 pmBy Lawrence BiemillerNew York University is teaming up with the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Washington on a five-year effort to help researchers take advantage of ever-increasing amounts of information by improving both data management and data analysis. The project, slated to cost […]
The Big Players in Big DataThere is a good deal of buzz around Big Data—hardly a week goes by without a new startup or business preaching the virtues of mining massive tracts of information. Understandably, many have trouble seeing beyond the hype, but nowhere are the benefits of Big Data more tangible than in the healthcare sector.IBM predicts a 20% […]
Social media came to a much different initial verdict about the first presidential debate than did the early polls and the conventional press, according to an analysis of the conversation on Twitter, Facebook and blogs by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism. On both Twitter and Facebook, the conversation was much more critical of Mitt Romney than it […]
The White HouseOffice of the Press SecretaryFor Immediate ReleaseApril 04, 2012FACT SHEET: The STOCK Act: Bans Members of Congress from Insider Trading“Send me a bill that bans insider trading by members of Congress; I will sign it tomorrow.” — President Obama, State of the Union, January 24, 2012In the State of the Union Address, the President laid out a blueprint […]
