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Sentiment Analysis: A Critical Link Enabling the Smart Cities of the F...

Roughly 4.4 billion, or 56% of the world’s population, live in cities, making them some of the most interesting, exciting, and...
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Extracting Valuable Business Insights From P2P Economies

Competition in the ecommerce industry is intense, calling for innovative strategies businesses can use to capture customer interest, maintain loyalty, and...
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Using Alternative Data to Observe Fiscal Policy

One of the most pronounced unintended effects of monetary and fiscal policy is response lag. When changing their approach to policy,...
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Measuring Consumer Expectations in Ecommerce

In 2021, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) released a paper, supporting their newly minted measure of inflation – the Price Sentiment...
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How Smart Investors Use Alternative Intelligence Data to Discover Oppo...

Investors these days need all the edges they can get. Information is widely available, and there is no shortage of smart...
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AI Regulation: A European Approach to the Ethics of Artificial Intelli...

Renowned technology strategist Clara Durodié discusses the European Union’s proposed new ethics regulations on artificial intelligence (AI) technology. The ethics of...
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A Lazy Man’s Guide to Data Driven Investing

Recently, I’ve read Dr Justin Chan’s piece on Data Driven Investing. I found it quite interesting and eye opening: A Big Data intelligence firm...
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Act Local

How climate risk intelligence can enable sustainable action at the local level As discussed in our last post, climate risk intelligence is what...
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It matters when it’s in your backyard

Climate risk intelligence to inform location-specific physical risk now and in the future. For decades, scientists have warned about the increase...
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Is Our House On Fire?

Exploring Future Scenarios with the Changing Climate The growing number of high-intensity acute physical hazards like wildfires and floods have been...
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We Need A Lot More Than Data: How Startups Can Harness AI

You open your phone, take an eye exam, and find out your risk of Alzheimer’s 3-5 years ahead even though you...
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What is Data Management?

In recent years, everyone talks about Big Data. We are always connected, so it is no mystery that the amount of...
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