Quantitative Global Analytics
Abstract
The Quantitative Global Analytics program will develop and integrate big data analysis technologies to enable commanders to detect dangerous trends and anticipate global events. In recent years we have seen how resource scarcity for necessities such as water and food can displace populations, destabilize nation-states, and precipitate global instability. Such ethnic, political, societal, economic, and environmental stresses can often be observed in advance through open source economic and financial indicators, as expressed in market activities. Market prices and volatility, which can be influenced by factors affecting production, transshipment, and/or delivery, may also provide signals in advance of disruptive events. Theoretically these signals can be a source of actionable information, but in practice it is difficult to generate useful intelligence due to the confounding effects of spurious signals and random noise. The Quantitative Global Analytics program will combine quantitative analysis of global and regional economic and financial data with natural language processing, social network analysis, computational social science, and climate studies to filter out such confounding effects to produce real-time intelligence from a wide variety of international open source data. The technologies developed in the Quantitative Global Analytics program will enhance situational awareness and generate indications and warning for new classes of cyber-social-economic-environmental threats.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2015
- Source ID
- 4d0bf758a6546832f634f6150cd18fc2
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