Euro Falls for 2nd Day on Concern Europe Debt Crisis Spreading - Social Visualization Software Review: IBM Many Eyes As we announced a few months ago, we will be starting a new feature aimed at reviewing visualization tools. This ongoing feature will hopefully shed light on these tools and if they might fit into your workflow. In the meantime, please feel free to give your opinion on this new reviewing feature in the comments section below. We are continuing the three-part series of online visualization tools. We chose the evaluation criteria based on user comments from our previous posts. Many Eyes was an early entrant into the online dataviz arena. Public visualizations at Many Eyes (click to enlarge). Treemap and live data editing (click to enlarge). Next week, we will review Tableau Public. Patrick Keenan is a founding parter at The Movement as design studio focused on amplifying social value work.
Preet Bharara Takes on Wall Street Crime In the fall of 2003, Anil Kumar, a senior executive with the consulting firm McKinsey, and Raj Rajaratnam, the head of a multibillion-dollar hedge fund called Galleon, attended a charity event in Manhattan. They had known each other since the early eighties, when, as recent immigrants, they were classmates at the Wharton School of Business, in Philadelphia. Their friendship, intermittent over the years, was based on self-interest rather than on intimacy. Kumar, born in Chennai, formerly Madras, India, was fastidious and morose, travelling at least thirty thousand miles a month for work, and seldom socializing. McKinsey executives, in an attempt to cash in on the explosive growth of hedge funds, had recently sent Rajaratnam several e-mails proposing that Galleon hire the company to provide expert advice. Kumar agreed to be paid a quarterly sum of a hundred and twenty thousand dollars. His offerings were never good enough for Rajaratnam, who kept pressing for more. “Drugs?” “Scumbag!”
McGill Alumni Online Community | AOC - McGill University Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News - FORTUNE on CNNMoney What is a magazine app? Fortune brings a new perspective to the iPad. Earnings Guidance Calendar Social Visualization Software Review: Tableau Public You have no doubt seen a Tableau chart before. They tend to be sleek, interactive, and intuitive. And they have already appeared in the Wall Street Journal, CNN Money, and CBS Sports among other places. The software is loved by many and quickly becoming the industry standard for those who DON'T necessarily consider themselves to be analysts. And it just became much easier for the non-analyst set to create excellent interactive charts with the recent release of Tableau Public, a new tool that puts the power of Tableau into the hands of everyone. As you might already know, this is our final review of the big three of free, online social visualization software approaches: Swivel, IBM Many Eyes, and now Tableau Public. We will wrap up with final thoughts next week with a benchmark that would make Tufte proud. Other Features Ability to make rich dashboards for sharing. Pros - Extremely robust software that is rock solid. Using Tableau is extremely easy.
Negotiating Employment with a “Private Equity” Firm – 7 Surprises to Expect > Sklover Working Wisdom “We’re all in this alone.”– Lilly Tomlin ACTUAL CASE HISTORY: Fourteen years of hard work had paid off for Enrique: he’d risen to Executive Vice President of a privately-held firm that was one of the country’s largest providers of continuing medical education for surgeons. He was number two to the firm’s founder, and the only non-family member among the senior-most executives. Enrique was considered by all to be a good prospect to run the company one day. The founder, who was 64, had been speaking of retiring for some time. One Friday morning, in a private meeting with the firm’s founder, Enrique was notified that the family had decided to sell the company to a “private equity” [sometimes called “PE”] firm, a company that invests the capital of pension funds, endowments, trusts and wealthy individuals in companies with an eye to revitalizing them so they can later sell them or take them public at a large profit. Jeffrey A. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Always be proactive. © 2011, Alan L.
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Flash Crash by Barry Ritholtz - September 27th, 2010, 5:48pm Nanex, via Marketbeat, gives us this graphical look at the Flash Crash: click for ginormous charts Category: Markets, Trading Social Visualization Software Review: Swivel As Google (Public Data Explorer) and Microsoft (Pivot) are getting into the mix of online data visualization tools, it is evident that this is a realm to carefully watch. Public data is de rigeur and blogs in this field are becoming ubiquitous, hence the perfect storm for online visualization. While public data is not necessary for online viz, it certainly makes it easy for the masses to enter the fray of data analytics. As we announced a few months ago, we will be starting a new feature aimed at reviewing visualization tools. There are many tools out there that suit different needs and sport varied features. This ongoing feature will hopefully shed light on these tools and if they might fit into your workflow. Our first software review will focus on the arguably current big three of online dataviz tools: Swivel, Many Eyes, and Tableau Public. We chose the criteria based on user comments from our previous posts. First, we want to focus on Swivel. Next week we will review IBM Many Eyes.
Everything You Wanted to Know About Credit Trading, But Were Afraid to Ask | TF Market Advisors Markets have become far less volatile than last year, but many investors remain focused on the Credit Markets for signs and cues as to the next move. With so many people looking to moves in credit markets and trying to determine how successful an auction has been, I thought it would make sense to go through some examples of how credit trades. At one extreme you have a real market like for the E-mini S&P futures. That trades from Sunday at 6pm EST until Friday at 4:15 EST. It is virtually continuous and at any given time you can see the bids and offers of the entire market. I will look at some examples of how European CDX Indices trade, a Single Name CDS trades, what an Investment Grade Bond New Issue looks like, and how a block trade in High Yield bonds work. This is a work of fiction and none of the banks or people mentioned represent real banks or individuals (even if you know who you are). An hour in the life of the MAIN CDX index in Europe Cast of Characters MAIN CDX Index Clients
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