{"id":40524,"date":"2014-02-10T07:25:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T12:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40524"},"modified":"2014-02-10T07:25:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T12:25:35","slug":"the-hedge-fund-wizard-betting-big-on-big-data-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2014\/the-hedge-fund-wizard-betting-big-on-big-data-research.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hedge Fund Wizard Betting Big on Big Data Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Philanthropy &#8211; Jaffray Woodriff knows a thing or two about data. The investment whiz based in Charlottesville, Virginia, used his homegrown predictive models of investment data to build a $4 billion-plus managed futures firm. Paying tribute to his golden goose, the investor just made a $10 million gift to advance the emerging field\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 26.666667938232422px;\">ed\u00a0the\u00a0<\/span>grant<span style=\"line-height: 26.666667938232422px;\">\u00a0to his alma mater, The University of Virginia, to endow its new\u00a0<\/span>Data Science Institute<span style=\"line-height: 26.666667938232422px;\">, a cross-disciplinary center that will focus on interpreting meaning from and using the heaps of\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 26.666667938232422px; font-size: 16px;\">of data science.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Woodriff\u2019s private Quantitive Foundation recently pledgdata drawn from arenas such as e-commerce, environmental monitoring, and finance. The university will also provide $7 million to the endowment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidephilanthropy.com\/home\/2014\/2\/6\/the-hedge-fund-wizard-betting-big-on-big-data-research.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside Philanthropy &#8211; Jaffray Woodriff knows a thing or two about data. The investment whiz based in Charlottesville, Virginia, used his homegrown predictive models of investment data to build a $4 billion-plus managed futures firm. Paying tribute to his golden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40525,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40524\/revisions\/40525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}