Source: livemint.com With the digital makeover of the economy, which has allowed for transactions carried out by individuals and companies to be traced and recorded in real-time, traditional methods of collecting economic data, such as in-person surveys and interviews, run the risk of becoming outdated. Digital records of such transactions—whether online or brick and mortar—at a Read More
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Source: mondaq.com SEC Chief Economist and Director of the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis S.P. Kothari highlightedpolicy challenges of big data. Speaking at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) conference on big data and high-performance computing, Mr. Kothari stated that the SEC faces three main big-data policy challenges: security, technology and communications. First, he Read More