A coalition of social and economic justice groups has launched a one-week campaign to end what they view as problematic university investments. The New York-based Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) and partner organizations including three Make the Road branches will hold six protests along the East Coast, calling on Columbia, Harvard and Yale to pull their…
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Is Crowdsourced Data Reliable?
Is Crowdsourced Data Reliable?
Countless companies now leverage crowdsourcing as a key component of their business model even though crowdsourced data has several crucial weaknesses. It’s hard to guarantee the diversity, reliability and expertise of information collected from strangers. For example, NBC reported more than 3,000 global news outlets inadvertently published tweets by Russian-backed trolls during the 2016 U.S. presidential…
Neudata Releases Version 2 Of Its ‘Scout’ Alternative Data Platform For Hedge funds
Neudata Releases Version 2 Of Its ‘Scout’ Alternative Data Platform
London headquartered big data specialist Neudata has released the much-anticipated version 2 of its online Neudata Scout digital data intelligence platform. Neudata provides hedge funds and other institutional investment managers with metadata about the vast array of alternative datasets available for selecting and back testing the most appropriate sources for alpha generation. It takes a lot…
Should Hedge Funds Be Concerned About Insider Trading With Alternative Data?
Should Hedge Funds Be Concerned About Insider Trading With Alternative Data?
The investment landscape is changing rapidly and asset managers are finding themselves in an arms race for new forms of alternative data. Everything from mobile phone location data to internet of things (IoT) data about crop yields, are being scraped, sanitized, packaged and sold on to investment managers looking for an edge when making decisions. But…
Financial Big Data: The Traces Of Trillions In Economic Activity
Financial Big Data: The Traces Of Trillions In Economic Activity
The financial world has always been about extracting value from information. The difference today is the sheer proliferation of data which can be modelled by scientists armed with lots of computing power. This ranges from numerical price information (which might now be called traditional data) to more exotic datasets, such as satellite imagery or location data…
Your Retirement Cash May Be In The Caymans. Are You Sure You Can Get It Back?
Your Retirement Cash May Be In The Caymans. Are You Sure You Can Get It Back?
The release of the so-called “Paradise Papers” touched off new scrutiny of how moguls, celebrities and politicians stash their cash in offshore tax havens. The practice, though, is hardly limited to the global elite. In fact, government documents show that local government officials have sent hundreds of billions of dollars of public sector workers’ retirement savings…
6 Top Venture Capitalists Powering The Blockchain Boom
6 Top Venture Capitalists Powering The Blockchain Boom
Bitcoin just reached yet another all-time high today: $4,700. Every week the blockchain industry, including the global cryptocurrency market, becomes more and more lucrative. “I think there are new asset classes that are going to emerge out of this,” venture capitalist Jalak Jobanputra told International Business Times. “I think there’s a lot of potential in the…
Should Hedge Funds Be Concerned About Insider Trading With Alternative Data?
Should Hedge Funds Be Concerned About Insider Trading With Alternative Data?
The investment landscape is changing rapidly and asset managers are finding themselves in an arms race for new forms of alternative data. Everything from mobile phone location data to internet of things (IoT) data about crop yields, are being scraped, sanitized, packaged and sold on to investment managers looking for an edge when making decisions. But…
Your Retirement Cash May Be In The Caymans. Are You Sure You Can Get It Back?
Your Retirement Cash May Be In The Caymans. Are You Sure You Can Get It Back?
The release of the so-called “Paradise Papers” touched off new scrutiny of how moguls, celebrities and politicians stash their cash in offshore tax havens. The practice, though, is hardly limited to the global elite. In fact, government documents show that local government officials have sent hundreds of billions of dollars of public sector workers’ retirement savings…
Blockchain, Big Data And The Value Of Global Trade
Blockchain, Big Data And The Value Of Global Trade
Most data turns out to have a greater value than the sum of the parts. There’s a story about a global courier firm that said it saw a large drop off in its monthly orders at some point in 2007, not too long before the bottom fell out of the global economy. Traditional economic forecasting did…
Wealth Management Sector Faces AI Questions
Wealth Management Sector Faces AI Questions
Lakewood Capital Bets Against One Of Chinese Richest Billionaires
There's a lot of noise about how Robo-Advice is going to disrupt the wealth management sector. Indeed, the UK's FCA received over 40 applications last year to use automated wealth solutions of one sort or another. Many Robo-Advisors tout some level of machine intelligence to foster results, but really offer a generic, pre-set portfolio of three…
The Secrets Behind Monero Cryptocurrency
The Secrets Behind Monero Cryptocurrency
Most cryptocurrency prices temporarily plummeted this week after JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon called bitcoin a fraudulent bubble as rumors of regulatory crackdown circulated in China. As of Friday, bitcoins are selling for a little over $3,000 a pop, according to CoinMarketCap, which is roughly $1,500 less than last week’s price. Most experts don’t worry about…
The ‘Fintech’ Approach To Data Science And Machine Learning
The ‘Fintech’ Approach To Data Science And Machine Learning
Within the silos of incumbent financial services, so-called fintech companies are good at picking off one thing only and doing it well. This approach is also taken within data science, where a lot of the properly intelligent work is about understanding the domain (problem) and how best to use the information/data for the problem you have.…
Why You Should Care When Hedge Funds Invest In Bitcoin
Why You Should Care When Hedge Funds Invest In Bitcoin
The market for cryptocurrency is booming in a way the world has never seen before. Bitcoin and ether tokens have turned early buyers into millionaires. Now hedge funds are getting in on the blockchain game. Forbes reported there are now well over 15 hedge funds managing digital assets and cryptocurrency investments, including Polychain Capital, which manages…
Two Sigma’s Wes McKinney Talks About Big Data Interoperability
Two Sigma’s Wes McKinney Talks About Big Data Interoperability
Kolanovic's Deep Dive Into Artificial Intelligence Lacks Human Understanding
There are many different components and systems for solving big data problems and one of the big challenges is interoperability. There can be high costs associated with plugging components together to transfer data between one system and another. The Apache Arrow project is good example of how to address issues of cost, speed and flexibility associated…