Big Data

Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Peng Zhao, and Michael Recce don’t work at hedge funds. But collectively these three illustrate a formula for the future of hedge funds, fund data operations, and big-time investing generally. Think of the equation hidden in their stories as stats scientist + strong leadership + cultural change management…

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The search and big-data company isn’t cheap, but it's certainly much cheaper than it was a year ago. It's been rough going for stock investors so far this year, but the party came to an end over the summer of 2019 for Elastic (NYSE:ESTC) shareholders. After quickly running higher in…

For many years, the use of location data emanating from our mobile devices has been viewed in the context of privacy and civil liberties trade-offs. Many people have agreed to trade data showing where we are and where we’ve been in exchange for the convenience of finding the nearest gas…

Published: April 14, 2020 at 1:42 p.m. ET ‘We can do better than this,’ Splunk’s Doug Merritt says Splunk Inc. CEO Doug Merritt castigated the federal government for its data-free response to COVID-19. Splunk Inc. The federal government’s tardy response and relatively data-free approach to the coronavirus pandemic has one…

Photo: GettyAs others have pointed out, Taiwan is something of a coronavirus “success story.” Despite being a stone’s throw from Mainland China, the island’s managed to keep the virus’s spread under wraps, and its body count low, and has been no stranger to spearheading new, (arguably invasive) tech to keep…

As we struggle to get a grip on exactly how COVID-19 makes us ill and what we can do about it, researchers have created over 50,000 articles. That's a lot of information! So, how do you make sense of it all? Verizon Media is doing it by using Vespa. This…

In the age of big data and analytics, business success is now measured in the knowledge you have that the competition does not. For a startup in the B2B market, that means there’s a reasonably steep hill to climb right from the beginning. Here is a startup guide to creating…

Aims to limit recessionary impacts, help global pandemic response First data was the new oil, then Google said data is more like sunlight. A flood of organisations proposing big data insight into the COVID-19 response would have anyone believe it is the new medicine. One of the more noteworthy initiatives…

The drawbacks of Europe’s rapidly aging population have become even more visible over the last month as the global COVID-19 pandemic has swept through the region. In some places, the sudden burden of disease has led even to the rationing of access to intensive care, creating nightmares for health providers…