David Stolin
France
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Leadership Skills in Corporate Director Biographies: Substance or Impression Management?
1 Introduction Following the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 2009 enhanced disclosure reform, US public companies are required to explain what skills and experience were considered in determining that a particular director was qualified to serve on the board. Director qualifications can often lend legitimacy to the company. For example, firms facing reputational crises are more likely to select military veterans for their boards (Simpson and Sariol 2019).
Fintechs and academics of the world, unite: How collaborating with a fintech scholar can turbocharge your startup
by David Stolin Building a fintech is hard – you need all the help you can get. And yet an enormous untapped resource is, literally, just sitting there. Academic researchers. Every university and business school has them. They are just sitting there and working on, well, academic research. They are my tribe, and I love them. They went into academia out of a passion for making sense of the world and sharing their knowledge and discoveries.
Making humorous educational videos through an educator-comedian collaboration
Edcoms vs. sitcoms vs. educator humor Sitcoms are widely used in teaching. To take economics as an example, according to Journal of Economic Education they include The Simpsons (Luccasen and Thomas, 2010), Seinfeld (Ghent, Grant, and Lesica, 2011), The Office (Kuester, Mateer, and Youderian, 2014), The Big Bang Theory (Tierney et al. 2016), Parks and Recreation (Wooten and Staub, 2019) and Modern Family (Wooten, Staub and Reilly, 2020).
Affordable online news archives for academic research
Every time a website posts a new article – like this one – the world’s set of publicly available information becomes a bit richer. Such richness attracts researchers, buttrying to exploit it presents them with a needle-in-a-haystack problem. Yes, Google News used to offer an archive you could interrogate, but this hasn’t been an option for years. Sowhat do you do if your research question requires you to gather an accurate history of relevant online articles?
Triple Attributes: A New Way to Protect the Most Sensitive Information - Dataconomy
Semantic Graph Databases are now common in many industries, including life sciences, healthcare, the financial industry and in government and intelligence agencies. Graphs are particularly valuable in these sectors because of the complex nature of the data and need for powerful, yet flexible data analytics. Attributes, user attributes and static filters are a new mechanism for graph databases to protect sensitive information.
4 Insights on the future of data centers - Dataconomy
Our ever-increasing dependence on the Internet to do business, entertain ourselves, communicate with others and shop for supplies has increased our amount of data exponentially. The vast amount of data needed to complete all of our activities requires a growing number of centers to safely store this information. Today, there are approximately 20 million smartphones, computers, tablets and other devices connected to the Internet and by 2020 that number will grow to more than 30 million.
INVESTING, FAST AND SLOW - PART 3: FROM SATELLITES TO STOCKS - Dataconomy
Financial markets offer countless ways of making (or losing) money. A key distinction among them is the investment horizon, which can range from fractions of a second to years. Previously, I sat down to talk about investing and data with co-founders of new investment management firms representing the high-frequency and low-frequency extremes: Walnut Algorithms and Global Systematic Investors.
Investing, fast and slow - Part 1: The Present and the Future of AI in Investment - Dataconomy
Financial markets offer countless ways of making (or losing) money. A key distinction among them is the investment horizon, which can range from fractions of a second to years. Walnut Algorithms and Global Systematic Investors are new investment management firms representing the high-frequency and low-frequency sides, respectively. I sat down to talk with their founders about investing, data, and the challenges of starting up.
About Us - Dataconomy
Dataconomy is the leading portal for news, events and expert opinion from the world of data driven technology. Founded in Berlin, a hub for data science innovation, we provide a global network of industry-renowned contributors and local communities all across Europe. We focus on industry giants and disruptive startups alike, looking at only the most interesting applications of data technology. Dataconomy Media GmbH is an internationally recognised press organisation, registered with the DVFJ.
What are banks telling to their investors about FinTech? - Dataconomy
Interest in fintech disruption is at an all-time high, but who will be the winners and who the losers is far from clear. Banks themselves have been sending mixed messages. As a particularly high profile example, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon famously raised the alarm when he said in 2014 that fintech challengers “all want to eat our lunch. Every single one of them is going to try”.
Big Data Paris, v 5.0 - Dataconomy
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Big Data, Berlin v10. - Dataconomy
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Big Data, Budapest v4.0 - Dataconomy
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Big Data Düsseldorf & Köln, v2.0 - Dataconomy
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Big Data, Frankfurt v 4.0 - Dataconomy
Join us for an evening of exciting talks from Data Science Industry leaders and experts, followed by some time for a few beers, pizza and networking. We look forward to seeing you there! If you would like to get in touch with us for getting involved, please write us an email: events@dataconomy.com. We hope to see you there for another night of great talks and networking!
"You have to defend your data" - A Primer with Kevin Mahaffey
Kevin Mahaffey is an entrepreneur, investor and engineer with a background in cybersecurity, mobile and machine intelligence. He is CTO and Founder of Lookout, a cybersecurity company dedicated making the world more secure and trustworthy as it becomes more connected, starting with smartphones and tablets. He started building software when he was 8 years old and it has been a love affair ever since. Mahaffey is a frequent speaker on security, privacy, mobile and other topics.
Beyond the Buzzwords with Kathleen Kennedy, MIT Technology Review
Kathleen Kennedy is the president of MIT Technology Review and the MIT Enterprise Forum. MIT technology review is MIT’s media platform and it covers emerging technologies and their impact. Their job is to help the audience understand the world shaped by technology, and obviously data is one of those huge disruptive and ultimately exciting forces that have a big impact on us.
Opinion Mining - Extraction of opinions from free text - Dataconomy
There’s a lot of buzz around the term “Sentiment Analysis” and the various ways of doing it. Great! So you report with reasonable accuracies what the sentiment about a particular brand or product is. After publishing this report, your client comes back to you and says “Hey this is good. Now can you tell me ways in which I can convert the negative sentiments into positive sentiments?” – Sentiment Analysis stops there and we enter the realms of Opinion Mining.
Infographic: How Tech Is Disrupting The Traditional Healthcare Market - Dataconomy
Over the last decade, we have seen massive changes in technology. It now has a role in nearly every aspect of our lives, including health care technology. Since technology is changing every industry, MW Homecare decided to focus their infographic on health care technology and how it is disrupting and changing the health care market.
Data Thinking meets Data Natives - A New White Paper by *um
“Data is part of our new cultural identity, transforming the way we communicate, learn and interact.” – This is the credo of the Data Natives conference, and one of the speakers at the event, Klaas Bollhoefer from The unbelievable Machine Company (*um), is taking it one step further: He adds that data must be a fundamental part of the mindset of any company today.
Data Transparency Could Fix Digital Marketing - Dataconomy
There’s a long history of industries undergoing massive transformations fueled by the power of digital data. The moment has arrived for data to help reshape one of the largest industries of the digital age: marketing.
Speaker Spotlight: Q&A With Dr. Stefan Kühn - Data Natives Berlin 2016
Data Natives Speaker Dr. Stefan Kühn is Lead Data Scientist at codecentric. Together with his team he is developing robust, fast and intelligent algorithms and is applying modern machine learning methods for analyzing large datasets. Before codecentric he was a researcher in the Scientific Computing Group at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Leipzig with a focus on Tensor Approximation and Higher-Order Singular Value Decomposition.
Speaker Spotlight: Q&A With Allan Hanbury - Data Natives Berlin 2016
Data Natives Berlin speaker Allan Hanbury is Senior Researcher and Privatdozent at the TU Wien, Austria. Since 2010, he has coordinated EU-funded research and development projects on analysis and search of medical text and image data. This led to the recent founding of a start-up, ContextFlow, which is bringing the developed radiology image search technology to the market.
Tech Open Air - Bringing everyone together - Dataconomy
Tech Open Air (TOA) Berlin took place over three days (July 13-July 15). With more than 150 speakers and 11,221 attendees, the event shaped up to be one of Europe’s leading interdisciplinary technology festivals. Attendees participated in a two day conference and more than 175 satellite events took place where collaborations led to growth and innovation. With its creative feel and history, Funkhaus Berlin gave TOA the perfect venue.
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