Smart Buildings — how to strike a balance between privacy and convenience? With the powerful predictive analytics in smart buildings, they can recognise the identities of all occupants to analyse the occupants’ behavioral patterns. The trained systems can then provide individualised optimal services, but the privacy of the occupants may be compromised. Here is a case of a smart lift provided by…

PropTech Cases —Case Study Library. Issue no. 2022–08 — Why Co-creation between big Corporates and Startups Is A Good Way To Innovate? Innovation is the key to success in PropTech. However, whether a startup or big corporate is better in innovation has been debated for decades, until recently when big corporates tried piloting co-creation projects with startups to drive innovations. In this discussion forum, we will investigate by case study method why…

Australia — Jericho (2021) put forward his inspiring hypothesis that the continuous rise in Australian house prices in 2021 was positively and strongly associated with the increase in housing finance (mortgage loans). …

We discussed the previous inversion of US yield curve in March 2019 and it predicted accurately the recession in 2020: Yiu, C.Y. (2019a) Yield Curve is Inverted Today, Medium, Mar 23. https://medium.com/@ecyY/yield-curve-is-inverted-today-eb5e3c207749 The US Yield Curve is inverted again since Tuesday (12 July 2022) again. Here shows the recent US…

Ukraine is known as “the breadbasket of Europe”. It is one of the major countries exporting wheat in the world, and its land is super fertile, with more than a quarter of the world’s chernozem or black soil, and is reported that “Ukraine can feed the world”! [1] Agricultural land area in Ukraine The total…

The FED raises interest rate — On March 16, the U.S. Federal Reserve announced a 0.25% rate hike, which is in line with market expectations. This is the first rate hike since the normalization process of interest rates was stopped in 2019. Even though the rate hike is mild, but the FED announced that there will…

After the end of World War II, the world has established the United Nations, signed the Bretton Woods Agreement for the establishment of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and the implementation of the USD-centered quasi-gold-standard currency system. All these new institutions had brought 25-year post-war economic recovery. The 1970s — a restructuring era …

I think many readers are not good at Python coding like me, but are interested in using ML (Machine Learning) applications. So today I will introduce a new platform: TensorFlow Hub, where many pre-trained Python apps are provided. The pre-trained ML programs can be used directly on Google Colab. …