The CommonWell initiative is aiming for something better: not just allowing doctors to send and receive data, but to search for it.
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Well, it looks like Yahoo's not immune to such goings on, as it's just announced that it will renege on its previous data retention promises and hold on to raw search data for 18 months.
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The project is part of a European-funded initiative, known as Smart ("search engine for multimedia environment-generated content"), which aims to create a system for internet users to search and analyse data from sensors.
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Written by experts who pioneered use of genetic data to search for the aggressive fish, the paper disagrees with government scientists who say many of the positive Asian carp DNA hits recorded in or near the lakes in recent years could have come from other sources, such as excrement from birds that fed on carp in distant rivers.
He added that it had decided to act now in order to add turn-by-turn directions to its offering without having to concede extra branding rights or permission for further data collection to the search giant.
In the wake of all the bad press associated with Chinese hackers successfully gaining access to private Google data, it makes sense for the search giant to show it takes security seriously.
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To vet out our theories, we looked at trends in keywords renters use to search for apartments using data from Google (GOOG) and our own internal data.
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The company still has a huge opportunity here, but may have to wait for its business partners to build out the search features, advertising tools, and data integration tools employers and candidates need.
Social Intelligence Corp. takes personal information given to the company by its clients and uses its own software to search the web for user-generated content, collecting a broad array of links and categorizing data to generate matches.
Polyvore then uses the data to drive its algorithms for search ranking and product recommendations, Sadri noted in a statement.
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In many ways, the biggest obstacle to leveraging Big Data in the search for talent may be HR practitioners themselves.
Their innovations range from cloud development tools and Big Data security and analysis applications, to search engines for voice recordings, behavioral biometric solutions for fighting fraud, open source technologies, and personal financial management tools for young people.
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Started in late 1998, the space-alien hunt has recruited the owners of 2.5 million PCs, tapping their machines' idle processing time to search small chunks of radio telescope data for patterns that might signal intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos.
They plan to pick over this data in search of clues for new products and services.
French military spokesman Christophe Prazuck said the priority was looking for wreckage from the plane, before turning the search to flight data recorders.
Back then, it was obvious that search was going to be a very important niche for organizing the firehose of data on the Web.
The U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security have a great interest in being able to search for words across various streams of audio and video data.
Graph Search makes it ridiculously easy for recruiters and employers to make use of that data to create better targeted ads, build stronger talent communities and reach people that want to work for them.
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By combining demographic data with search metrics and statistics for each website, they were able to put together some infographics representing the impact of each blackout across the US. Unsurprisingly, the East and West coasts were the most effected.
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More recent data from executive search firms show that preparedness for CEO succession at our largest companies continues to be problematic.
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The product will allow users to search for people, places, photos and interests within the deluge of data made available by friends and fans.
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The Extract, Transformation and Load (ETL) process that cleans up the data and ensures data integrity, the data warehouse that acts as a scalable and reliable repository for data derived from many sources, and some form of search acceleration for large data volumes are all still needed, and an enlightened IT group is needed to install and maintain them.
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It has released Same Store Sales (SSS) data for Amazon, eBay, comparison shopping and search on a monthly basis from December 2011 to December 2012.
Significantly redeveloped, this WinMo will focus on an upgraded user experience with massive changes made to ease of use, as well as new features like global search and data correlation, meaning the device would, for example, know who you're talking to and give you instant access to email from only that person, or maybe a map with that pinpoints their address.
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They want to know what the Big Data folks know about us based on which celebrities we search for.
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Its sprawling network of warehouse-size data centers around the world scrapes and analyzes the Web for every clue to how we search for what's out there.
Google argues that an acquisition, however, would not increase competition for online travel sites, as the search engine giant currently drives traffic to these sites and analyzes the data.
Wajam, an up-and-coming player in the social search space, is going beyond the desktop with social recommendatios for iOS users, which provides access to friend data across social networks when using Mobile Safari.
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The second would be to take what you search for anywhere on Google private, so that the service stopped collecting your data and customizing what you would see.
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