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I know there's been some thrusts into using sentiment and a social aspect to financial markets. Can somebody point me to these. I'd also love to see what people think can be done with crowd-sourced stock opinions or social feed sentiment based stock recommendations. I was thinking it is perhaps more useful to give negative recommendations or options rather than just buy/sell type output.

I've been interviewing for jobs in image processing as a researcher/developer and I'm always asked what are my salary expectations. Now I've been interviewing for entry-level jobs for people with a Master's or a Ph.D (I have a Ph.D in CS) and I'm not sure what a reasonable estimate is. I live in British Columbia, Canada and the cost of living is pretty high here. I estimate a reasonable range to be between $70k - $75k but I'm always low-balled to $60k - $65k as a counter-offer. Can somebody advise on what a reasonable range is? Assume there are no additional benefits to the salary package. The basic responsibilities are to develop computer vision/ image processing algorithms in C/C++ with an aim towards later porting them onto FPGAs with the camera sensor. I'd appreciate any comments/advice/links to resources.