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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?...