Taxonomy

Adding ‘unique’ content to SunGard’s MarketMap terminal

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Blog Post Profile ImageWe are very pleased to announce that SunGard, one of the world’s leading software and technology service companies, has chosen to use Heckyl’s news and sentiment analysis services on their MarketMap terminal. The new content will be available to MarketMap users across North America, Asia and Europe.

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Faster Trading Opportunities with Smarter Taxonomy

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Taxonomy is the science of the classification of things and when implemented effectively it helps us to retrieve relevant information in a timely manner.

The Best Taxonomy

The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) and Industry Classification Benchmark (ICB) are an industry taxonomy developed for use by the financial community, when classifying companies. These Sector classifications are probably the best-known taxonomy in the financial field. However, in trading since it is all about relevancy and contextual information, at Heckyl, we believed that a new level of taxonomy was needed that could analyse data – be it news, events or companies – at a much more granular level. Our taxonomy is therefore based on machine learning, which goes beyond keyword matching. Read the rest of this entry »