FINDING BIG ALPHA IN BIG DATA

Among the hallmarks of the digital age is the explosion in the quantity of data being produced—and, increasingly, put to work. How is this development reshaping the landscape for asset management? And what do investors need to know about “big data?” To help answer these questions, our Scientific Active Equity Group has convened several investor symposiums in recent months, both live and in webcast form. We’ve drawn on them to produce this paper, an investor briefing on what big data is, why it matters and how it can be used to generate alpha.

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Securing Data In Motion: Working at the Speed of the Mission

whitePaper | August 25, 2022

Everyday user experiences are being completely reimagined. Requesting a ride through an app is better than calling a cab. Buying online is changing the way we go shopping. And gone are the days of waiting in long lines at your local bank. Data within these modern businesses is in constant motion, flowing, in real-time, across systems, environments, and applications every time a user interacts with the system.

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White Paper on Privacy and Data Protection

whitePaper | March 30, 2022

Inching a step closer to framing a robust data protection regulation for India, the Joint Parliamentary Committee (“Committee”) submitted its report to the Parliament of India on the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 (“2019 Bill”) on 16 December 20211 , after deliberatingfor almost two years. With that, the Committee also presented a revised bill, i.e., the Data Protection Bill 2021 (“2021 Bill”). Although presently there is no dedicated legislation in India addressing data privacy and data protection, on a sector-neutral basis, the Information Technology Act 2000 (“IT Act”) and the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules 2011 (“SPDI Rules”) regulate aspects of data privacy and protection in India today.

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Data Lake Whitepaper

whitePaper | December 22, 2022

We live in a digital world in which data analytics and artificial intelligence significantly impact our daily lives. They influence what we wear, what we eat, where we travel, and how we spend our free time. In medicine the impact of data has much more drastic effects, as access to high-quality medical data is a matter of life or death for patients every day. In this particular area, the desire to save human life by discovering modern methods of therapy and diagnostics often contradicts another fundamental right of the patient - the right to privacy and the right to dispose of one’s data.

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Vida for Retail: Rebooting Retail withthe Power of Data Analytics

whitePaper | January 11, 2023

There used to be a time when purchase decisions were based on recommendations of the neighborhood grocery manager. Today, these purchase decisions are driven by technology, bringing together the collective wisdom of consumers of the same product from across the world.

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The Alignment Problem with "Sale of Data"

whitePaper | December 12, 2022

In August 2022, the California Office of the Attorney General announced a $1.2 million settlement with international cosmetic retailer Sephora for violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act. Following this announcement came a wave of questions about the regulator’s emphasis on the broad interpretation of the CCPA’s “sale of data” and adoption of the Global Privacy Control.

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Data Architecture Series - The unified data fabric

whitePaper | September 8, 2022

Enterprises today have to contend with exponentially increasing volumes of batch and streaming data, comprising a variety of structured, unstructured, and semi structured data types, and originating from an expanding number of disparate sources located on-premises, in the cloud and at the edge.

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