Today marks International Women’s Day 2013, and Dow Jones & Company is marking the date with a video and infographics that looks at women’s evolution in business. The data informing these elements comes from its Factiva information service, which recently enhanced its metadata and taxonomy credentials with MarkLogic Corp.’s search technology (see our story here).

Factiva was used to map media mentions of women executives in search of the top 20 over the past ten years. The featured individuals are ranked in the infographic according to the number of mentions received in publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal to Barron’s to China’s People’s Daily.

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Real-time macroeconomic and geopolitical events and sentiment about them now figure into RavenPack News Analytics 3.0, to help financial firms react more quickly to what’s happening in the world.

The solution is aimed at quant finance shops, such as hedge funds, banks, and some financial research houses, where the machines are doing the trading. It’s a part of the market that’s had some rough times of late because of some trading errors, but in general quant firms represent a growing piece of the financial space, says RavenPack Head of Sales and Business Development Hugh Taggart.

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