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Turning the Web into

Predictive SignalsDr. Christopher Ahlberg, CEO/Co-founder

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Internal to External, Past to Future

From small datasets tovery large databases

From structured data to

unstructured data

From corporate datato internet/web

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Seismic Shift in Intelligence

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Temporal Indexing of Web Enables Web Intelligence

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Why Possible Now?

Linguistics

Signals

Large/fast storage

Fast math

Web harvesting

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Text Is Loaded with Temporal Signals

North Korea apparently began

pursuing a uranium enrichmentprogram in 1996 at the latest

offering closes on Sept. 27, Tesorowill use net proceeds to buy back

upcoming notes due in 2015 and 2017

2012 is the year when China will exportmore chemicals according to this source

Dr Sarkar says the new facility willbe operational by March 2014...

Drought and malnutrition hindernextsprings expansion plans in Kabul...

...opposition organizersplan to meet on Thursday

to protest...

Going to see Sarkozyspeakthis weekend...

New Russian worm setto unleash botnet on

4/1/2012...

According to CellBlog,Pakistans 4G network will be

deployed by mid-2011

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Recorded Future Platform

150,000 Real-time Sources

5+ Billion Time-tagged Facts

Dr Sarkar says the new facility willbe operational by March 2014...

...opposition organizers

plan to meet on Thursdayto protest...

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Whats Going Down Next 90 Days

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ViolenceCyber attacks

Supply chainFinancial instruments

Financial risksProduct opportunities & issues

Sales opportunities

Competitors

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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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Big data and unrest

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