Piotr and Ontonix work

Piotr has been working with Ontonix exploring the complexity and potential for collapse in European countries as evidenced in World Bank data we provide clients.

Below is a snapshot and here is a link to a movie on Youtube.

Shanghai and Beijing: the tale of two cities

Guest Blog today by Wang Jialiang who is doing research and other work for us over the summer.

 

Quantum4D & World Bank WDI and GDF indicators

World Bank Datasets

This week we've added the World Bank's World Development Indicators and Global Development Finance datasets as a free dataset users can download and share using Quantum4D. 

Aristotle and the iPad running Google Earth

Ideas in Q4D and Google Earth

The Geometry of Afghanistan

We've done some work recently with GeoNames.  Below is a picture of populated places in Afghanistan.   You can see the outline of major rivers and valleys.   If you are interested in exploring how landscapes impact economic and industry development; let us know.   

 

Afghanistan populations (with altitude shown

What Do Normal Stocks Normally Do?

Revision 1.1 ~  2010-05-14 ~ images updated, added new last line to Preface

Disclaimer: I am not, in any way, a statistician nor a "quant". I cannot pretend to be an expert in the way that stocks move or markets function. I do have a background in programming and and visual design. I do like to identify patterns.

Preface

Using Quantum4D I am able to overlay large numbers of stock charts over one another. This is a feature rarely supported by stock market charting software. While investigating the application of these charts and the various capabilities of the software, I seem to be uncovering patterns in markets that I have never seen before. I would very much appreciate your help in identifying the underlying causes of these patterns.

This paper is the first in a series of papers that seek to highlight interesting patterns in stock markets.

Collective Intelligence & Crisis Prediction (real-time exploration)

The network in the network

How do you get ahead of stories like Greece's debt crisis?  What did the story look like before it became a story?  Quantum4D was designed to potentially enable a billion brains to work together in shared digital mindspace.  A hybrid of statistics and structural understanding provides transparency, efficiency and network awareness (but on cross industry scale) necessary to anticipate risks and mitigate systemic crisis.  

 

Who knew when and how did the story evolve?  How would a billion brains be able to see and communicate early warnings of global to local inflection points?  How would you manage the dissemination of inforamtion   We're going to following the recent developments in Greece here on our new blog to illustrate how a hybrid social network, analysis environment and predictive markets engine might combine to provide an early warning system in the pre-crisis noise. 

 

So, to get ahead of stories like Greece, you assume people who have an interest in a topic will link to top level views of a domain,  These can be interlinked top and are dynamic within the scope of a non-web based interface. As new data comes into the system (i.e. sources on capital markets, fiscal policy, politics, etc..) flag alerts subscribed to by the user will lead them to drill down for details.   Within organizations, users can import existing structural models of their domain (i.e. asset classes, legal relationships, holdings).   These already exist and can be transformed into a shared data universe in minutes.

 

 

 

Greek & Spanish Debt | Who stands to lose with restructuring?

A view of Greek/Spanish debt

You can see more here in this gallery and presentation

 

Here we drill down for a look at specific bank exposures.

Integrating Analytics in Quantum4D

You mentioned that data from statistical packages can be imported. I think you stated S-Plus was possible. But I didn’t hear you mention SPSS. I use SPSS 16. Can that data be imported directly from SPSS?

 

Taxonomy in Quantum4D

Who creates the taxonomy in the first place?  I imagine the metadata is pulled from the different databases, is that correct? Is there a white paper or some other document that explains how that occurs?