MIT Media Lab (E14-648)

This workshop focused on opportunities for big data and predictive analytics in finance and economics, including new approaches to modeling, measuring, and understanding risk. Read the summary report (pdf) Watch the videos Check out the reading list Overview Technological advancements have transformed financial markets into increasingly complex and dynamic systems. Organizations including banks, asset management firms, information technology firms, and regulatory agencies are all: increasingly interconnected; managing transactions at sub-millisecond time scales; and generating, storing, and managing masses of data.…