Data mining
The folly of data mining
The problem we face today is not data scarcity but surfeit – and big data sets can easily be mined and tortured to identify patterns that are utterly useless
Investors mining new data to predict retailers’ results
Wall Street investors are tapping into the quickly evolving field of “alternative data” to help them predict retailer performance and provide an advantage over other investors.
When push comes to nudge: Finance gets personal
As digital banks gear up for launch, incumbent banks must go on the offensive by investing heavily in technology. Their goal: to help customers improve their financial decisions, by using AI to delive...
Data collection startup Tictag raises US$1.3m in pre-Series A funding
TICTAG has raised US$1.3 million in its pre-Series A funding round led by venture capital firm M Venture Partners, said the Singapore-based data collection and annotation company on Wednesday (Jun 15)...
Phone tracking, nude selfies see Chinese bare all for credit
[HONG KONG] Talkative people pay back loans. The very talkative default. Too taciturn is no good either. Also, don't take out a loan at 4 am.
Restaurants turn to data-mining to serve up enhanced dining experience
THE early diners are dawdling, so your 7.30pm reservation looks more like 8. While you wait, the last order of the duck you wanted passes by. Tonight, you'll be eating something else - without a secon...
Mining news stories catching on in economic forecasting
[WASHINGTON] Government officials and investors are on a constant quest for more and better information about the economy to gauge what policy levers should be pulled, or just to help them make money.
Big data is a big mess for hedge funds hunting trade signals
[NEW YORK] It was big data's big moment.
MAS to push banks, insurers for more data labs
THE Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) will work with several other banks and insurers on plans to establish and expand their data analytics and innovation teams in Singapore, said its managing dir...
