WiseWindow provides a data set that allows changing attitudes to be mined and analyzed.
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As a data set, these companies represent as solid a set of market averages as you could wish for.
Kauffman crunched a data set from the Census Bureau covering the years 1977-2005.
It is necessary to shorten the time frame from 20 years down to 10 years in order to get a data set which includes a lot more countries.
All it takes is some rudimentary experience running statistical tests on a data set, mucking around trying to prove a couple of hypotheses, and generating a few visualizations.
In the unstructured data world, especially text, the big trend is predictive coding or predictive analytics that identify high-risk communications, flag them for followup and use machine learning to train a data set.
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Multiply that by millions of customers in a metro area, and a smart grid can produce a data set large enough to monitor power demand in real time and predict probable outages before they occur.
The personal data table, which is a separate data set, was not encrypted, but was, of course, behind a very sophisticated security system that was breached in a malicious attack.
Unlike some academic studies which deal only with publicly available information, Pragma used a private data set from its customers, who represent about two percent of total market volume on a daily basis, which showed who was placing the orders.
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Mr. Bryant was citing a different data set that had been leaked to him.
In addition with such a small data set there is little statistical significance.
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The economists looked at a sample of mortgages in a huge data set that covers 60% of America's residential-mortgage market.
The Goldstone and Arecibo observations will provide a spectacular data set.
"We can't compare that with the submarine measurements of the '50s and '60s, but eventually we will have a hard data set to compare with itself, " said Kwok.
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It should also improve security, providing a common data set that gives the authorities electronic access to some 20 documents that describe who is shipping what, whence, whither and to whom.
There are a variety of players like Splunk, 1010data, Pervasive who have technology that can quickly allow analysts to understand if a big data set has potential and to start processing it.
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But when a corporation applies an algorithm to a huge data set to discern information about our desires, relationships, or health status it shares only the information of empathy, none of the relationship.
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Kauffman Senior Fellow Tim Kane analyzed a new data set from the U.S. government, called Business Dynamics Statistics, which provides details about the age and employment of businesses started in the U.S. since 1977.
And the variation in startup outcomes is so great that even though we have such a large data set, the best single founder outcome is so far better than any of the multiple founder outcomes.
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Sony must be holding a good data set on the number of unlocked bootloaders out there, what handsets are the most popular, and with the inclusion of Firefox OS into that program will be able to gauge interest and activity before presumably releasing a Firefox OS powered handset themselves.
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Dr Giles explained that the measurements gathered by satellite provided a continuous data-set and had a number of advantages over other methods.
R2 is most often seen as a number between 0 and 1, used to describe how well a regression line fits a set of data.
Big data refers to a set of information and data so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using conventional database management tools.
Translate that as: If you aggregate textual data from all social sources you have a better set of data for understanding what drives sales.
My manager and I used one tool to monitor the data stream while the uplink team used another tool for a different set of data.
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Lookout, armed with a constantly refreshed data set from the tens of millions of its Android users who opt to upload new threat info, has been the first to spot many of those malware outbreaks.
Retail pricing is very much part of game theory and seeing this in the raw, rather than in simulated experiments, could be a very useful data set to mine to work out more about how such game theory applies in the real world.
For its salary survey it went beyond its members and combed through data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau and a master set of data developed by a compensation measurement company called Job Search Intelligence.
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