Thank you to our friend and Big Data Pioneer Ronald R. Hutchins for contributing this piece to our blog. Dr. Hutchins is the Chief Technology Officer at Georgia Tech.

Throughout history the forces that have shaped our lives have been powered by innovation. The technologies that surround us…

Denying that big data is a new paradigm (post year 2000) is like saying that the human population has been huge for a long time: if we can handle 10 million human beings as we did a few thousand years ago, we can handle 10 billion today the same way, even one trillion. It's the same as saying that data flowing at 10 million rows per day can be processed and analyzed the same way as 10 billion or one trillion per…

Natural Language Processing (NLP) is the branch of computer science focused on developing systems that allow computers to communicate with people using everyday language. NLP is considered as a sub-field of artificial intelligence and has significant overlap with the field of computational linguistics. It is concerned with the interactions between computers and human (natural) languages.

Natural language generation systems convert information from computer databases…

As US equity markets closed out 2013 at new highs the future of equity research is facing significant change.  With “price targets” being reset for many soaring social, cloud and big data analytics stocks let’s meet the new software analyst.  But first, a little background.

Equity research has marginally evolved with investment styles and trading strategies over the past couple of decades.  The days of primary fundamental research, particularly on the sell-side, faded long ago.  Most…