The Rise of Big Data and Machine Learning:
Can data science and quantitative methods coexist with judgment and heuristics?
• Moderator: •
Michael Melvin, Rady School of Management, Master of Finance program
Sylvain Champonnois • •
Director and senior researcher, BlackRock Active Equity, London Prof at UCSD, Imperial College London
Jeremy Schwartz •
Director of Research, Wisdom Tree
Allan Timmermann •
Distinguished Prof of Finance, Rady School of Management, UCSD
Data science & investing • • •
Big data, unstructured data sets like Twitter feeds, Google searches, Satellite imaging,… Overt data mining; look for info relevant for investors Human element: Where do you look? What do you look for? How do you implement? What weight to give?...