Demand for information
by Dr Shiqi Chen, Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for Finance and Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance Shiqi Chen We are entering into an era of Big Data, in which the demand and supply of data and information are growing…
Marketing moves centre stage
Long the Cinderella of the corporate world, marketing is playing an increasingly major role as analytics take over from intuition, and human needs shape products. Dr Shasha Lu, Lecturer in Marketing at Cambridge Judge Business School, who delivers the Digital…
Regulatory technology
Global RegTech industry earned an estimated $5 billion in 2018 following five-year surge in startup activity, says first Global RegTech Benchmarking Report by the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance with support from EY Japan. The global RegTech (Regulation Technology) industry…
Invesco and Cambridge Judge Business School announce a 10-year collaboration
Invesco to support Cambridge Judge Business School’s research activities in long-term asset management, alternative finance and data-analytics. Global asset management firm Invesco and Cambridge Judge Business School today announced a 10-year collaboration under which Invesco will support research activities in…
Artificial intelligence and big data consulting: doing black magic with the world’s ‘new oil’?
Lead Data Scientist at BCG Gamma consulting and Cambridge MBA alumnus, Iman Karimi (MBA 2010), talks about big data, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence and its impact on society and companies. A conversation with Cambridge MBA Executive Director Conrad Chua…
Important labels
'Categorisation' is key to regulation of new technology platforms, Professor Shahzad Ansari of Cambridge Judge tells the AOM Big Data Conference. Professor Shahzad Ansari The "categorisation" of new technology platforms will be critical as regulators and other policymakers address issues…
Is your profile picture ‘smart’?
Algorithms can predict a person's intelligence based on social network photos as accurately as humans can and without faulty stereotyping, says study from University of Cambridge Judge Business School. Algorithms can assess a person's intelligence based on their social network…
Medical Express: Facebook updates could help to understand mental health disorders
Our Facebook status updates, “likes” and even photos could help researchers better understand mental health disorders with the right ethical safeguards, says a new study from the University of Cambridge. The data collected from social media could help improve researchers’…
Cineuropa: BigData.BigMovies reveals cinema digitalisation opportunities
Fran Royo writes about an international conference BigData.BigMovie that took place in Germany last month. Scientists and practitioners came together to discuss the importance of big data on the film and television industry. Dr Allègre Hadida, University Senior Lecturer in…
From academia to (off)-Broadway
David Stillwell is a big data academic at Cambridge Judge Business School. So why does he feature in a hit play at New York's Public Theater, starring Daniel Radcliffe? Dr David Stillwell is an academic through and through. Bespectacled, earnest,…
