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Large Hadron Collider is gearing up for new physics
I thought it interesting to compare what an equivalent… Continue
Added by Theodore Omtzigt on November 30, 2009 at 6:37am — No Comments
IBM Opens Advanced Analytics Center in Washington, D.C.
November 10, 2009: 12:01 AM ET
WASHINGTON, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the opening of the sixth in a network of analytics solution centers - this one dedicated to helping federal agencies and other public sector organizations extract actionable insights from their data.
The new IBM Analytics Solution Center in… Continue
Added by Vincent Granville on November 29, 2009 at 12:15am — No Comments
And now something completely different: brain simulation
Added by Theodore Omtzigt on November 28, 2009 at 11:57am — No Comments
#26: Here's a thought...
Say cheese
News reaches us from Italy that there is a solution to this problem. Rather than subjecting each and every customer to the risk rating process, Credito Emiliano, a regional bank in Northern Italy, simply accepts a fairly durable commodity as collateral: parmesan cheese. According to Bloomberg, Credito Emiliano keeps cheese worth about 132 million Euros… Continue
Added by Brian Roger on November 27, 2009 at 11:28am — No Comments
Social networks: is the growth real? A business opportunity.
From our experience, we see very strong growth on Twitter, but after removing spammers, the growth is close to 0. LinkedIn shows a strong growth too, smaller than Twitter, but after removing spammers, LinkedIn growth appears much stronger than… Continue
Added by Vincent Granville on November 26, 2009 at 6:31pm — 2 Comments
Google Analytics 'illegal' say German regulators
Google’s web analytics tool can be used for free by any website, and according to research agency Xamit it is used by around 13% of German sites. But because web users are not given the chance to opt out of having their activity tracked, the federal data protection commissioner, together… Continue
Added by Amy on November 26, 2009 at 1:59pm — No Comments
Indian Analytics Company Secures $15MM in VC Funding
19 - November - 2009, Bangalore | India
Manthan plans to use funding to target leadership position in Retail Business Intelligence & Analytics
Manthan Systems, a leading provider of Business Intelligence and Analytical solutions for the retail and consumer packaged goods industries today announced that it has secured Series B funding. The investment,… Continue
Added by Vincent Granville on November 26, 2009 at 10:49am — No Comments
The idea that will make Twitter more profitable than Google
One thing that they must have been thinking about for a long time is this very simple concept: sell paid tweets on Twitter. This might be the holy grail for Twitter. How would this work? Each paid tweet would show up with a little logo, so that the user knows it's paid content. Paid tweets would be created by advertisers on their Twitter or Feed Burner account, and would then be… Continue
Added by Vincent Granville on November 24, 2009 at 9:56pm — 2 Comments
The next Internet revolution: news feed aggregation and optimization (it will create new types of analytic jobs)
Why did Twitter receive so much VC funding (more than $100 million), yet they barely make any money.
I believe that Twitter could be the new Google and the new source of information, in 5 to 10 years. Twitter could become the largest repository of news and content. The feature introduced this month - list management - is…
Added by Vincent Granville on November 22, 2009 at 12:00pm — No Comments
Strategy Leaders Roundtable
At the 2009 Americas Summit in San Francisco, I had the distinct pleasure of joining Drs. Kaplan and Norton on the Strategy Leaders Roundtable to close out the conference.
See the full video on the Execution Premium Community, where the conversation continues...
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Added by Joey Fitts on November 21, 2009 at 2:33am — No Comments
Cloud ecosystem
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Added by Theodore Omtzigt on November 20, 2009 at 11:18am — No Comments
Interrupted Time series.
A big FMCG company sells "paper napkins" of various sizes and pack size ( say pack of 10 or a pack of 20) through retail outlets in eastern India/ western India/ southern India / northern India. Paper napkin of a particular size and pack size form a distinct item and is labeled with a Universal Product Code (UPC). They aggregate the units sold across all retail outlets in a weekly basis and collect that data. We have 2 years data from them for each of the geographical… Continue
Added by Partha Sarathi Ghosh on November 18, 2009 at 1:30am — No Comments
The Smart Grid, Predictive Analytics, and Cloud Computing
Added by Vincent Granville on November 17, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments
Issues on Hedge Effectiveness Testing
Abstract
The starting point for risk management and hedging lies in understanding a corporation’s exposure to different risks. Hedging is vital for corporate risk management, involving reducing the exposure of the company to particular risks. Hedge effectiveness testing permits firms to assess if they match the timing of the gains and losses of hedged items and their hedging derivatives. In… Continue
Added by John A Morrison on November 14, 2009 at 12:54pm — No Comments
Liquidity, default, and market regulation "Liquidity and default are inseparable"!
12 November 2009
Liquidity and default are inseparable. Liquidity problems fuel defaults and vice versa. This column discusses the shortcomings of current regulatory proposals to address liquidity and default. It says that regulators must address “systemic markets”, not just systemic institutions, and need informative measures of financial stability.…
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Added by John A Morrison on November 14, 2009 at 12:03pm — No Comments
The reform of UK financial regulation - Maximilian J. B. Hall
Professor of Banking and Financial Regulation,
Department of Economics,
Loughborough University
ABSTRACT
Since the enactment of the new Banking Act in February 2009, with a new 'Special
Resolution Regime' at its heart, the debate about how to reform the UK's financial
regulatory and supervisory framework has intensified. A major catalyst for this was the
publication of Lord Turner's 'Review' in March 2009, which was… Continue
Added by John A Morrison on November 14, 2009 at 11:51am — 1 Comment
Thank You Letters Could Be Your Biggest Nightmare!
It is important to have… Continue
Added by Jeff LeFevre on November 13, 2009 at 11:44am — No Comments
Elder Research partners with SAS & Teradata to start the first analytics "think tank", the Business Analytics Innovation Center
Added by Vincent Granville on November 12, 2009 at 10:42pm — No Comments
Four Short Links by Nat Torkington
CRM on Rails, Data Mining on Hadoop, Disappointing Keynotes, The Teapot Effect
by Nat Torkington | @gnat | comments: 1
1. Fat Free CRM -- open source (Affero GPL) Ruby on Rails CRM system.
2. Bixo -- open source data mining toolkit that runs as a series of pipes on top of Hadoop. Built on Cascading workflow system for Hadoop that hides MapReduce. (via kdnuggets)
3. Andy Kessler's Keynote at Defrag Stank (Pete Warden) -- I'm sorry… Continue
Added by Vincent Granville on November 12, 2009 at 10:40pm — No Comments
The Sentiment on US Economy from Twitter
Is the economic crisis over? What is the sentiment of people regarding US Economy and the future? These are some of the questions that many people ask these days and the signs are somewhat mixed. Dow Jones is close to the 10000 mark and some US Economy Indices show that the worse is behind. But do people feel the same?
To answer these questions 10000 Tweets containing the word economy were… Continue
Added by Themos Kalafatis on November 11, 2009 at 2:21am — No Comments
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