Professional investors known as quants use hard facts about companies — share price, EBITDA, and so on — to inform the algorithms that carry out their automated trading strategies. But softer sources… Read more »
Even the biggest media companies are being buffeted by the task of collecting and using mass amounts of consumer and audience information — even as the media business itself continues to… Read more »
Orthopedics and agriculture — the hot new fields in big data may be less glamorous than two years ago, but that’s where venture capitalists are looking. Read more »
IT departments have historically feared complexity because it implied creating systems they couldn’t afford. Now, in the age of cloud compute, it’s not just possible to make complex IT — it’s… Read more »