Data.gov, an important step to empower Americans with the data and tools they need to make more informed choices in the marketplace.
Congress might even go a step further and mandate data collection so that Treasury or other agencies could study their effectiveness.
Finally, it means that enterprises have an opportunity to step quickly into Big Data, which in my opinion is an absolute necessity.
But can we go a step further and use data to judge which really are the most innovative companies in America (or the world)?
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The Data Sensing Lab is the next step in Google's quest to master environmental data collection after absorbing the team behind Behavio last month.
This year the team members took their data to the next logical step by offering their best shot at a national strategy for Israel, based on true population data.
So, step away from the Big Data hype for a moment and grab yourself a trusty pencil.
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You need to gather your business' data at every step of the way and in every interaction with your customers.
The first step is to bring the data down to its unique set and reduce the amount of data to be managed.
Step 3- Invest in data infrastructure : Many organizations put off the upfront investment of time and resources on their infrastructure and their analytics maturity suffers.
But this influx of institutional capital toward among large funds is forcing a temporary step backwards on the way data is collected, managed, analyzed and monitored.
More than ever, that experience is backed every step of the way by data, which means that the dark corners of data performance risk are becoming a bet-the-company vulnerability.
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But Information Commissioner Richard Thomas, the tsar charged by Parliament with ensuring the act is enforced, has said he wants doctors to go a step further and publish individual data.
Repeated sampling was conducted at four wells where EPA was delivering temporary water supplies as a precautionary step in response to prior data indicating levels of contaminants that potentially posed a health concern.
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The amount of data in social media is so large that the first step users will have to take is determining which data might be useful.
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As the volume of data continues to proliferate, it is this last step that will mark the difference between companies that are overwhelmed by big data and those that are powered by it.
The first step is a commitment to share data that the public and the profession needs.
Robust, unbiased data are the first step toward addressing our long-term economic needs and key policy priorities.
Disaggregation of data is a necessary step in fully understanding the needs of the AAPI community and many other pan-ethnic communities.
Step 1 is to publish your data using APIs to get as much value as you can from the data you have.
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It publishes a bi-annual transparency report that enumerates all its government data requests, a step that Facebook, Microsoft and others have yet to match.
But if industry wants to shine up a reputation dimmed by suspect behaviors of some of its own, voluntarily turning to independent evaluation and reporting of transparent data sets is one step toward polishing away some of that tarnish.
Making meaningful actions to share data will be a big step in that direction.
But access to the data was just the first step in the disruption.
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Even with reams of supporting data it is vital to step back, employ some common sense, and ask why a tendency (because some are just that, tendencies) may work.
Starting this month, Toshiba UK will include a standard desktop tile linking to the National Rail Enquiries journey planner on all its Windows 8 devices, and the next step for Darwin is to incorporate GPS data as it becomes more available.
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"We get caught up in the monthly volatility of the data, and we need to step back, " she said.
Economists don't think the latest economic data will lead the Fed to step up the size of its bond purchases.
One key step it streamlined and parallelized its data loading.
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The industry now has the capability, in both data and infrastructure, to handle finer, census-type data, letting advertisers go a step further and accurately, repeatedly, and consistently predict sales if different advertising is placed.
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