Text analytics for quant investing

In this meetup, Kiran Vuppala, a Vice President in the Quantitative Tools team under Aladdin Product Group, speaks about how unstructured data that contains critical information related to markets play a pivotal role in quantitative investments done at BlackRock. Unstructured data complements the traditional structured data based investment signals. Kiran explains the challenges, with regards to data, NLP and firm, to be considered while implementing a centralized Text Analytics platform. He then covers Blackrock's centralized Text Analytics platform. The intermediate and pre-computed Analytics, now in structured form, are consumed by toolsets and models that were built for structured data. Kiran finishes with how data along with Infrastructure, encompassing IPython, RStudio, Spark and Hadoop clusters, can be used by researchers in the firm to solve the common use cases around UnStructured and Big Data. More on technology at BlackRock @ http://blackrock.com/engineering Follow our tech twitter: http://twitter.com/rockthecodeio Join the conversation! Twitter: https://twitter.com/blackrock Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blackrock/ Periscope: https://www.periscope.tv/blackrock LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/blackrock

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