Farmers have always had immense amounts of data but little training or tools to analyze it.
And we have more and more data, and more tools to analyze and communicate it.
The GIIRS Analytics platform gives investors powerful tools to analyze aggregated, verified and comparable data on the social and environmental impact of companies and funds across geography, sector, organizational maturity, and size.
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If the bottleneck around Big Data is to loosen, the way forward might be in simplifying the tools to analyze it, so moderately skilled business people can ask the questions they really need to ask, and to understand the answers they get in return.
When they get back, the space vehicle will hopefully have provided enough data to pinpoint a potential drilling area so it can drill, collect and analyze rock samples using onboard tools -- a feat never-before attempted on Mars.
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The service also includes a variety of tools to help users analyze the data.
The study paints a picture of a business environment in which access to information is more distributed, data analysis skills are more common, and tools to manage and analyze large sets of data are more pervasive.
Note that Wikibon defines big data as data sets whose size, type and speed of creation make them impractical to process and analyze with traditional database technologies and related tools in a cost- or time-effective way.
As they expand their role in communications, CMOs also need to be savvy about technology and math, as they use more sophisticated online tools to target customers and analyze the effectiveness of advertising and marketing efforts.
Brands are also discovering how to better leverage analytics tools in order to collect and analyze data across all integrated media channels in order to make better marketing decisions.
It may have already been around for some time now, either in the cloud or within on-premises systems, but tools were not available to capture or analyze it.
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Indeed, the two most successful statistical analysis programs, SPSS and SAS, expanded from their domain-specific base (social science for SPSS and bio-medical research for SAS) to become tools used wherever there was data to analyze.
New Big Data tools leveraging technology such as Apache Hadoop can process and analyze high volumes of data at reasonable costs, creating business intelligence that companies can use for competitive advantage.
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As the Vice President announced in June 2010, we have expanded the use of cutting-edge fraud mapping tools to gather enormous quantities of information in real time, analyze the data, and connect the dots to identify indicators of possible fraud or error.
In order to address many of these problems, however, researchers must analyze mountains of data, spend considerable time integrating data, or develop analytical tools.
SiSense believes it has found the answer by providing a streamlined software solution, containing a set of tools that access, clean and consolidate data, as well as analyze, visualize and report on it.
With our tools they can model it real-time with current events and also analyze historical events that have happened in an area before.
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Google Now may not be the computer of the future that predicts your every need, but as people get more comfortable with their personal data being used to analyze them, predictive apps can expand their scope to collect even more data from tools such as wearable pedometers and other sensors.
It also enables visualization on different devices before publication, as well as tools to tweak look and feel to the different strengths of each product, and other software to analyze and target behavior and ads.
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