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Book The Global Findex Database 2017

Download or read book The Global Findex Database 2017 written by Asli Demirguc-Kunt and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011 the World Bank—with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—launched the Global Findex database, the world's most comprehensive data set on how adults save, borrow, make payments, and manage risk. Drawing on survey data collected in collaboration with Gallup, Inc., the Global Findex database covers more than 140 economies around the world. The initial survey round was followed by a second one in 2014 and by a third in 2017. Compiled using nationally representative surveys of more than 150,000 adults age 15 and above in over 140 economies, The Global Findex Database 2017: Measuring Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution includes updated indicators on access to and use of formal and informal financial services. It has additional data on the use of financial technology (or fintech), including the use of mobile phones and the Internet to conduct financial transactions. The data reveal opportunities to expand access to financial services among people who do not have an account—the unbanked—as well as to promote greater use of digital financial services among those who do have an account. The Global Findex database has become a mainstay of global efforts to promote financial inclusion. In addition to being widely cited by scholars and development practitioners, Global Findex data are used to track progress toward the World Bank goal of Universal Financial Access by 2020 and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The database, the full text of the report, and the underlying country-level data for all figures—along with the questionnaire, the survey methodology, and other relevant materials—are available at www.worldbank.org/globalfindex.

Book Big Data Analytics

Download or read book Big Data Analytics written by Frank J. Ohlhorst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique insights to implement big data analytics and reap big returns to your bottom line Focusing on the business and financial value of big data analytics, respected technology journalist Frank J. Ohlhorst shares his insights on the newly emerging field of big data analytics in Big Data Analytics. This breakthrough book demonstrates the importance of analytics, defines the processes, highlights the tangible and intangible values and discusses how you can turn a business liability into actionable material that can be used to redefine markets, improve profits and identify new business opportunities. Reveals big data analytics as the next wave for businesses looking for competitive advantage Takes an in-depth look at the financial value of big data analytics Offers tools and best practices for working with big data Once the domain of large on-line retailers such as eBay and Amazon, big data is now accessible by businesses of all sizes and across industries. From how to mine the data your company collects, to the data that is available on the outside, Big Data Analytics shows how you can leverage big data into a key component in your business's growth strategy.

Book Data Money

    Book Details:
  • Author : Koray Caliskan
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2023-08-01
  • ISBN : 0231558015
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Data Money written by Koray Caliskan and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cryptocurrency world has transformed in a few short years from a niche subculture to a parallel economic universe, reaching a market capitalization of more than $2.5 trillion in 2021 before plummeting in 2022. For their advocates, cryptocurrencies represent a revolution of world-historical significance. To critics, crypto is more of a speculative tool than a true currency. How do tens of thousands of financial actors make these new monies? What forces give cryptocurrencies their value—or take it away? And what does crypto’s spectacular ascent reveal about the nature of money? In this groundbreaking ethnographic analysis of crypto economies and their global markets and communities, Koray Caliskan offers an inside view of how cryptocurrencies are made and traded. He argues that cryptocurrency should be understood as “data money,” a historically novel money type, created as the right to send data privately over an accounting infrastructure called blockchain. Drawing on two years of fieldwork among global cryptocurrency communities and in crypto markets, Caliskan makes visible the production principles of cryptocurrencies and explores how crypto exchanges work from within. He explains why and how we have been misunderstanding, underregulating, and improperly taxing crypto exchanges and actors. He also proposes a radically new way to make sense of new finance and its actors. An invaluable book for all readers seeking to understand cryptocurrency, Data Money sheds new light on a profound transformation of finance and its possible future trajectories.

Book All You Can Pay

Download or read book All You Can Pay written by Anna Bernasek and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You don't care who can access your data because you have nothing to hide. But what if corporations were using that data to control your decisions? As millions of consumers carry on unaware, powerful corporations race to collect more and more data about our behaviors, needs, and desires. This massive trove of data represents one of the most valuable assets on the planet. In All You Can Pay, Anna Bernasek and D. T. Mongan show how companies use what they know about you to determine how much you are willing to pay for everything you buy. From college tuition to plane tickets to groceries to medicine, companies already set varying prices based on intimate knowledge of individual wants and purchasing power. As the consumer age fades into history, rapidly changing prices and complex offers tailored to each individual are spreading like a fog over the free market. Data giants know everything about us before we enter stores or open our browsers. We may think that the Internet lets us find the best deals, but the extensive information companies have about us means that the price we see tends toward the maximum they know we can pay. In a momentous shift, the economics of information will turn our economy on its head. Fair bargaining is over.

Book This Time Is Different

Download or read book This Time Is Different written by Carmen M. Reinhart and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-07 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An empirical investigation of financial crises during the last 800 years.

Book Data Mining  the Money Is in the Data

Download or read book Data Mining the Money Is in the Data written by O. Theobald and published by . This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm going to start with a hypothesis. This hypothesis predicts that you've already read about big data. Perhaps because you read regularly about technology on Tech Crunch or Fast Company, or maybe you've bought a book about big data on Amazon. But after reading 15 case studies on how big data is transforming business you start to get impatient. You want to unlock the massive power of big data, start your own small projects and add 'Data Mining' as a skill to your LinkedIn profile. The term 'data mining' even sounds cool. It has a similar ring to 'Bit Coin Mining,' and evokes the notion of prospecting for wealth. "Oh hey John how was your weekend?" Your colleague asks you on Monday morning. "Nothing special. Took this weekend pretty easy, bought a couple new video games. Oh and that's right... (feigning like this is not what you've been waiting to share all along) and Sunday afternoon I crushed out some data mining reports on Hadoop at this awesome new coffee shop down the road. I think this will double our expected sales revenue for the spring quarter." To act modest, you add on a quick remark about trying de-constructed coffee for the first time. Data Mining is definitely not as sexy as this fictional story makes out. Dating mining skills take significant dedication and time to develop, and is not something you can learn in a weekend. But it is true that data mining is intertwined with very high earning potential (six figures), and business growth. This book is written for beginners to data science who are interested in making sense of large volumes of data to uncover new insight, assist decision-making and gain a competitive edge. If you are currently a student or already working in marketing, medical research, senior management, policy analysis or IT then this book is ideally suited for you. What you learn from reading this book - Data Mining Infrastructure- Data Mining Software- Web Scraping (without code)- Downloading Free Datasets- Data Mining Techniques: Regression, Clustering, Anomaly Detection, Text Mining, Association Analysis & More.- Data Mining Visualization- Data Mining Careers- Machine Learning- Big Data Analytics Click buy above to dive into Data Mining!

Book Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data

Download or read book Reinventing Capitalism in the Age of Big Data written by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Big Data, a prediction for how data will revolutionize the market economy and make cash, banks, and big companies obsolete In modern history, the story of capitalism has been a story of firms and financiers. That's all going to change thanks to the Big Data revolution. As Viktor Mayer-Schörger, bestselling author of Big Data, and Thomas Ramge, who writes for The Economist, show, data is replacing money as the driver of market behavior. Big finance and big companies will be replaced by small groups and individual actors who make markets instead of making things: think Uber instead of Ford, or Airbnb instead of Hyatt. This is the dawn of the era of data capitalism. Will it be an age of prosperity or of calamity? This book provides the indispensable roadmap for securing a better future.

Book Keesha Counts Money

Download or read book Keesha Counts Money written by Tana Hensley and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone can learn computer science, even at the elementary school level. This book delves into the essential computer science concept of data organization using age-appropriate language and colorful illustrations. A meaningful storyline is paired with an accessible curricular topic to engage and excite readers. This book introduces readers to a relatable character and familiar situation, which demonstrates how data organization is used in everyday life. Readers will follow Keesha as she counts her money and puts coins in order. This fiction title is paired with the nonfiction title Let's Count Coins (ISBN: 9781538351895). The instructional guide on the inside front and back covers provides: Vocabulary, Background knowledge, Text-dependent questions, Whole class activities, and Independent activities.

Book Handbook of Digital Currency

Download or read book Handbook of Digital Currency written by and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating currencies, payment methods, and protocols that computers use to talk to each other, digital currencies are poised to grow in use and importance. The Handbook of Digital Currency gives readers a way to learn about subjects outside their specialties and provides authoritative background and tools for those whose primary source of information is journal articles. Taking a cross-country perspective, its comprehensive view of the field includes history, technicality, IT, finance, economics, legal, tax and regulatory environment. For those who come from different backgrounds with different questions in mind, The Handbook of Digital Currency is an essential starting point. Discusses all major strategies and tactics associated with digital currencies, their uses, and their regulations Presents future scenarios for the growth of digital currencies Written for regulators, crime prevention units, tax authorities, entrepreneurs, micro-financiers, micro-payment businesses, cryptography experts, software developers, venture capitalists, hedge fund managers, hardware manufacturers, credit card providers, money changers, remittance service providers, exchanges, and academics Winner of the 2015 "Outstanding Business Reference Source" by the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)

Book Where s the Money in Big Data

Download or read book Where s the Money in Big Data written by Ping Li and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to collect, crunch, act upon, and share huge amounts of data disrupts nearly every industry, tearing down barriers to entry and creating entirely new businesses.

Book Big Data Analytics

Download or read book Big Data Analytics written by Frank J. Ohlhorst and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique insights to implement big data analytics and reap big returns to your bottom line Focusing on the business and financial value of big data analytics, respected technology journalist Frank J. Ohlhorst shares his insights on the newly emerging field of big data analytics in Big Data Analytics. This breakthrough book demonstrates the importance of analytics, defines the processes, highlights the tangible and intangible values and discusses how you can turn a business liability into actionable material that can be used to redefine markets, improve profits and identify new business opportunities. Reveals big data analytics as the next wave for businesses looking for competitive advantage Takes an in-depth look at the financial value of big data analytics Offers tools and best practices for working with big data Once the domain of large on-line retailers such as eBay and Amazon, big data is now accessible by businesses of all sizes and across industries. From how to mine the data your company collects, to the data that is available on the outside, Big Data Analytics shows how you can leverage big data into a key component in your business's growth strategy.

Book Data   Value   Creation

Download or read book Data Value Creation written by Fiona van Maanen and published by Van Haren. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a vision and approach to formulate an answer to the many challenges from a holistic perspective (and with data as the source for value development). Both on a geopolitical and macro level, but also on a corporate microlevel, the digital transformation 4.0, as described in this book, offers a clear, manageable vision and approach to give our society and economy a new boost, using data as the new source for value creation.

Book The Black Box Society

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Pasquale
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-05
  • ISBN : 0674967100
  • Pages : 320 pages

Download or read book The Black Box Society written by Frank Pasquale and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior—silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. The data compiled and portraits created are incredibly detailed, to the point of being invasive. But who connects the dots about what firms are doing with this information? The Black Box Society argues that we all need to be able to do so—and to set limits on how big data affects our lives. Hidden algorithms can make (or ruin) reputations, decide the destiny of entrepreneurs, or even devastate an entire economy. Shrouded in secrecy and complexity, decisions at major Silicon Valley and Wall Street firms were long assumed to be neutral and technical. But leaks, whistleblowers, and legal disputes have shed new light on automated judgment. Self-serving and reckless behavior is surprisingly common, and easy to hide in code protected by legal and real secrecy. Even after billions of dollars of fines have been levied, underfunded regulators may have only scratched the surface of this troubling behavior. Frank Pasquale exposes how powerful interests abuse secrecy for profit and explains ways to rein them in. Demanding transparency is only the first step. An intelligible society would assure that key decisions of its most important firms are fair, nondiscriminatory, and open to criticism. Silicon Valley and Wall Street need to accept as much accountability as they impose on others.

Book Data  Digitalization  Decentialized Finance and Central Bank Digital Currencies

Download or read book Data Digitalization Decentialized Finance and Central Bank Digital Currencies written by Andreas Dombret and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the future of banking and money? The road passes through data and digitalization at all levels of activity, from personal banking through publicly and privately issued digital currencies. But who is winning and losing ground in the banking sector? Do we really need central bank digital currencies and how should they and private digital currencies be designed and regulated to yield the maximum benefits while reducing the obvious dangers? How should we regulate the new digital technologies? This book ́brings you the answers of senior public sector officials, industry leaders and leading academics. It is the tenth title in the Institute for Law and Finance’s series on the future of the financial sector.

Book Selected Sources of Quantitative Data on Money and Credit

Download or read book Selected Sources of Quantitative Data on Money and Credit written by Hope K. Holdcamper and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: