WORKSHOP: Big Data Analytics in IR: Latest Academic Research and its Implications for IROs
Wednesday, June 8, 2016 | 9:15AM
- 10:15AM | Room: Grand Hall B
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Marketing Outreach & Stakeholder Communications
| Simon Alfano | Joscha Maerkle-Huss |
Big data analytics is on every company’s agenda. Yet it often remains unclear what big data exactly is, what its relevant implications are for IR and how it can provide benefits within organizations. Big data analytics enables companies to analyze large-scale datasets to reveal novel insights. Applied to the analysis of financial disclosures, big data analytics provides insights into how investors form decisions based on the language in corporate disclosures. The workshop will be structured in three sections:
1) Recent development of big data analytics in IR
2) Lessons learned from big data analytics research in financial markets
3) Implications of big data analytics for IR
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Learning Objective 1: Gain understanding of what big data analytics is, how it evolved and what its impact is on the financial industry
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Learning Objective 2: Review the latest approaches and methodologies for IR
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Learning Objective 3: Learn how to exploit big data analytics for applications in IR