Turning the Web into Predictive Signals

Dr. Christopher Ahlberg, CEO/Co-founder

Internal to External, Past to Future

From corporate data to internet/web

From structured data to unstructured data

From small datasets to very large databases

Seismic Shift in Intelligence

Temporal Indexing of Web Enables Web Intelligence

Why Possible Now?

Fast math

Large/fast storage

Web harvesting

Signals

Linguistics

Text Is Loaded with Temporal Signals

North Korea apparently began pursuing a uranium enrichment program in 1996 at the latest Drought and malnutrition hinder next springs expansion plans in Kabul...

offering closes on Sept. 27, Tesoro will use net proceeds to buy back upcoming notes due in 2015 and 2017

2012 is the year when China will export more chemicals according to this source Dr Sarkar says the new facility will be operational by March 2014...

...opposition organizers plan to meet on Thursday to protest...

Going to see Sarkozy speak this weekend... New Russian worm set to unleash botnet on 4/1/2012...

According to CellBlog, Pakistans 4G network will be deployed by mid-2011

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Dr Sarkar says the new facility will be operational by March 2014... ...opposition organizers plan to meet on Thursday to protest...

150,000 Real-time Sources

5+ Billion Time-tagged Facts

Whats Going Down Next 90 Days

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Violence Cyber attacks Supply chain Financial instruments Financial risks Product opportunities & issues Sales opportunities Competitors

Application I: Monitoring Unrest

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Application I: Monitoring Unrest

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Application I: Monitoring Unrest

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Application II: Analyzing Cyber Threats

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Application III: Competitive Intelligence

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Application III: Competitive Intelligence

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Application III: Competitive Intelligence

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Application IV: Lead Generation

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Application IV: Lead Generation

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Application V: Trading on Patterns

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Summary

Surprise

Foresight

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