Best of the Best Business Websites (Free Resources): The 2010 Selection
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Abstract
Welcome to the second annual presentation of the of the Best Business Websites (Free Resources). These three websites were selected by the Business Reference and Services Section (BRASS) Education Committee, which is a part of RUSA. The committee is responsible for compiling and selecting the best free online resources to meet business librarians' needs in serving their user populations. This year's selection deals with one site from financial markets and investments and two from international business. We hope you find the following sources helpful and encourage you to explore all of our other picks at the RUSA BRASS website (www.ala.org/rusa/brass). Additionally useful are the Selected Core Resources, also found on the section website. FINANCIAL MARKETS AND INVESTMENTS BigCharts.com, http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com The name says it all: BigCharts.com is big on charts! This site provides basic, advanced, and interactive charting tools; current and historical quotes; industry and market data; news and analysis; and screening tools for stocks listed on major American, Canadian, and other exchanges around the world. BigCharts.com is operated by MarketWatch, a leading multimedia source of financial news and information. The website organizes information under tabs such as quotes, news, industries, markets, historical quotes, and big reports. A help link at the bottom of the screen leads to detailed information on how to use various sections of the site and to a glossary. Creating a one-year price chart is easy: enter a ticker symbol and click on Basic Chart, a blue button at the top of the page. To change the timeframe, use the dropdown menu that offers intraday and historical time series. You can build charts for periods ranging from one day to a decade, or even longer if the data are available for that security. The historical quotes are available from 1994 to present. Charts for up to ten days use intraday data and the longer time series use end-of-day pricing provided by Thomson Reuters. The charts for stocks traded on American exchanges are accompanied by links to related company and market adviser news, industry data, company profile, annual report, SEC filings, insider news and data, and analyst ratings. Advanced charts offer a long list of charting options and allow customization to one's exact specifications. You can select start and end dates; compare up to ten stocks, mutual funds or indexes on a single chart; overlay moving averages and fundamental information on the chart price display; and view up to three of the twenty-seven available technical indicators at one time. The interactive charts offer all the advanced chart features and more, including the ability to draw trend lines by selecting a timeframe and then zooming in on a specific timeframe on the chart. Use the section to track up to fifty intraday quotes at a single time. There are two areas within this section: My Favorite Quotes and Quick Quotes. Both offer basic intraday price information for each stock with links to news and charts for further research. The My Favorite Quotes page allows you to save your tickers for future visits to the page. The Markets section provides a summary on current day's domestic stock market activity. It also provides links to current prices of major market Indexes, a stock screener that can perform simple intraday stock screens, and a Search for Index page that makes it easy to find a particular index. The BigReports section gives you lists of reports that outline major stock market activity from the previous trading day, such as the largest money movers and the day's most active stocks on various exchanges. A dropdown menu offers similar reports for Canadian exchanges. To a technical analyst, a chart is worth a thousand words. BigCharts.com offers charting tools with multiple timeframes, frequencies, indicators, and styles. …
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.482 | 0.516 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".