FinTech & Design Reads 3

14 Mar 2014 — By MOD/L team

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Our favorite finds for March so far — Markit & SMA social sentiment, NLP for meetings, and iOS Carplay among others.

Markit and Social Media Analytics partner on social financial sentiment data

Gridspace Uses Natural Language Processing To Make Your Meetings More Efficient

A bit old, but getting a bit more time due to SXSW this week. Edgar has a JSON api for SEC data!

Facebook’s Look Back feature went from idea to product in under a month via @epro

Live data integrated into your video as demonstrated by a Planet Money piece on economic data

iOS in your (new and fancy) car

Fantastic article about Termen, innovation, and society’s acceptance of technology

Conference like it’s 1999! Long live the spacer gif!

Google Glass for Doctors, via @cnb3

Broad trends in Personal Finance

A variable and hostile web


via @ryannee:

If you’re like me, you’ve probably heard about Bitcoin but don’t really understand what on earth it actually is. This podcast has a great explanation of Bitcoin by Glenn Fleishman, who writes about the digital currency for the Economist. The Bitcoin part starts at 26:25.

Also, they talk a lot about public and private keys and cryptography in this podcast. The modern cryptography section of Khan Academy has a great explanation of how these keys actually work. Specifically this video




  • Tags:
  • Social Sentiment
  • Markit
  • Social Media Analytics
  • iOS
  • Google Glass
  • Bitcoin