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- Published / Preprint: The digital traces of bubbles: feedback cycles between socio-economic signals in the Bitcoin economy. (arXiv:1408.1494v1 [physics.soc-ph])
- Published / Preprint: Structural social capital and health in Italy. (arXiv:1408.1671v1 [q-fin.EC])
- Published / Preprint: Signal-wise performance attribution for constrained portfolio optimisation. (arXiv:1404.4798v2 [q-fin.PM] UPDATED)
- Why IBM’s New Brainlike Chip May Be “Historic” | MIT Technology Review
- Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Scaling up Data Frames
- Blog Post: iMFdirect: U.S. Labor Force: Where Have All the Workers Gone?
- Vendor News: Early Consumer Results for T-Mobile Jump! Program
| Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:38 PM PDT What is the role of social interactions in the creation of price bubbles? Answering this question requires obtaining collective behavioural traces generated by the activity of a large number of actors. Digital currencies offer a unique possibility to measure socio-economic signals from such digital traces. Here, we focus on Bitcoin, the most popular cryptocurrency. Bitcoin has experienced periods... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.      |
| Published / Preprint: Structural social capital and health in Italy. (arXiv:1408.1671v1 [q-fin.EC]) Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:38 PM PDT This paper presents the first empirical assessment of the causal relationship between social capital and health in Italy. The analysis draws on the 2000 wave of the Multipurpose Survey on Household conducted by the Italian Institute of Statistics on a representative sample of the population (n = 46,868). Our measure of social capital is the frequency of meetings with friends. Based on IV and... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:38 PM PDT Performance analysis, from the external point of view of a client who would only have access to returns and holdings of a fund, evolved towards exact attribution made in the context of portfolio optimisation, which is the internal point of view of a manager controlling all the parameters of this optimisation. Attribution is exact, that-is-to-say no residual "interaction" term remains, and various... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Why IBM’s New Brainlike Chip May Be “Historic” | MIT Technology Review Posted: 07 Aug 2014 11:53 AM PDT IBM's new chip uses a million digital neurons and 256 million synapses http://t.co/lMsqyzNZMr — moneyscience (@moneyscience) August 7, 2014 Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: ThePracticalQuant: Scaling up Data Frames Posted: 07 Aug 2014 09:00 AM PDT New frameworks for interactive business analysis and advanced analytics fuel the rise in tabular data objects[A version of this post appears on the O'Reilly Radar blog.]Long before the advent of "big data", analysts were building models using tools like R (and its forerunners S/S-PLUS). Productivity hinged on tools that made data wrangling, data inspection, and data modeling convenient. Among R... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Blog Post: iMFdirect: U.S. Labor Force: Where Have All the Workers Gone? Posted: 07 Aug 2014 08:49 AM PDT By Ravi Balakrishnanread more... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
| Vendor News: Early Consumer Results for T-Mobile Jump! Program Posted: 07 Aug 2014 05:07 AM PDT New ITG Market Research Report Finds Flagship Devices Benefit the Most NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ITG Market Research today released the results of its latest Early Upgrade Report showing Jump! customers are utilizing the program's early upgrade option to upgrade to the newest flagship devices at significantly higher rates than the customer base as a whole. Since April, the... Visit MoneyScience for the Complete Article.    |
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