Unicom conference on 'AI, Machine Learning and Sentiment Analysis Applied to Finance' examined the state of the art.
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Peter Hafez, chief data scientist at RavenPack, knows about processing large volumes of unstructured data.
Arshak Navruzyan, founder of Startup.ML, has been applying machine learning to quantitative finance problems.
Quandl founder Tammer Kamel says Visa is right to be paranoid.
An early alert about the recurring food scare at Chipotle illustrates the power of Dataminr's algorithms.
ClearMacro CEO Mike Simcock started the company to help investment managers that were drowning in a deluge of data.
Big Data has gotten bigger, but small shops don't have the same resources for research and testing.
Cuemacro CEO Saeed Amen is enthusiastic about open source for Big Data.
The world of finance is hindered by legacy tech: It's takes a long time to update and is siloed into systems that don't talk to each other.
"Without this specialisation and domain knowledge, it's very hard to rise above the noise," says Dr Tristan Fletcher, research director of Thought Machine.
Tim Estes, CEO of Digital Reasoning, explains the evolution of machine learning surveillance techniques.
Gary Collier, Co-CTO of Man AHL, remembers how suspicious corporations used to be about open source software.
The investment platform also uses the cloud and machine learning to enhance returns.
Called Thomson Reuters Labs – The Incubator, the startup will be located in Switzerland.
The UK is a cradle for tech talent, says Hazel Moore.
McKinney created the Pandas project and has spent the last seven years working in the Python open source ecosystem.
The Winton Labs Demo Day will take place on 9 February in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute.
Man AHL chief scientist Anthony Ledford works to separate the signal from the noise in financial data modeling.
RavenPack can help financial firms overcome their default setting to hold onto data.
Skry can detect anomalies like a DDoS attack or a spike in transactions fees on both public and private chains.
IBT Media's data science and finance event looked at alternative data sets and natural language processing.