Big data, big hype, says Simon Garland, chief strategist at Kx Systems, a specialist in high-performance databases and timeseries analysis widely used in finance.

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To give you an idea of how widespread the problem is, a new study to be published in the Journal of Finance and Quantitative Analysis finds that option volume in a specific stock begins to surge three days before unannounced analyst upgrades or downgrades of a company.

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In retrospect, the roots of the crisis are easy to spot, Wachter writes in her analysis, co-written with is Richard K. Green, professor of finance and economics at George Washington University.

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These days some of the best minds in finance are using statistical skills and programming prowess to harness old-fashioned fundamental analysis.

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C. who helped finance the Chelsea Piers sportsarama in Manhattan and Media Cybernetics, which sells image-analysis software.

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Government organizations (including the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health), charitable foundations, and pharmaceutical companies across the world have all helped finance the initiative, but the funders played no role in the data collection, analysis, or publication.

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