Tag: data

REAL-TIME MACROECONOMIC DATA ANALYSIS

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Speaker: Timur Behlul, AlphaBeta Seminar Date: Tuesday August 1 12:00pm Brief abstract: Macro-economic data such as GDP typically undergoes many revisions prior to the final release. These revisions go on for several quarters, and can be quite significant. Yet many practitioners attempting to forecast current quarter GDP (now-casting) use the latest vintage of data. This is problematic, as using the

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REVERSE ENGINEERING HUMAN MENTAL STATE

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Speaker: David Skillicorn, Queen’s University – Canada Seminar Date: Tuesday June 27 12:00pm Brief abstract:Often, especially in adversarial settings, we don’t have direct access to persons of interest. Fortunately, humans leak a great deal of their mental state and behaviour through the language they use and the relationships they create. These data can be captured and analysed computationally,

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