Institutional Investor (May 24)
Quants may be able to “fundamentally transform the ability of investors to find companies that embrace ESG principles.” Beyond crunching more widely available ESG data, some hope that unstructured data, ranging “from people’s comments on social media to data mined from online retailers,” can reveal “hard-to-measure issues like corporate culture or a commitment to the environment.”
Tags: Commitment, Corporate culture, Data mining, Environment, ESG, Hard-to-measure, Investors, Quants, Social media, Unstructured data
The Economist (July 15)The Economist (July 15)
“The traditional census is dying, and a good thing too.” Statisticians now believe they can get more accurate (and less costly) data by mining existing government records, such as tax records and social security payments. Denmark started the trend, doing away with its traditional census decades ago. Sweden, Norway, Finland and Slovenia followed. And Germany plans to use this data-mining approach from 2011. This October, Japan will conduct a population census. Could it be the last?
“The traditional census is dying, and a good thing too.” Statisticians now believe they can get more accurate (and less costly) data by mining existing government records, such as tax records and social security payments. Denmark started the trend, doing away with its traditional census decades ago. Sweden, Norway, Finland and Slovenia followed. And Germany plans to use this data-mining approach from 2011. This October, Japan will conduct a population census. Could it be the last?
Tags: Census, Data mining, Denmark, Germany, Japan
