In a situation in which data seemed too scarce, an indexic approach based on creative application of new data saved the day.
But the application of small data in big ways also holds the ability to convert numbers into real profits.
"We're all interested in the collection and application of personal data and its consequences for individual rights and social science concepts such as trust and discrimination, " said Dr Ball.
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The next, social and ecommerce. (Think Foursquare and Gilt Groupe.) More recently, a third generation is cropping up, characterized by the application of Big Data techniques to a variety industries.
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The hottest tech trend of the year is Big Data, the application of powerful new analytical tools to the mountains of data now being created by the Cloud and by millions of new sensors embedded into the natural world.
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Knack combines three fashionable trends: gaming, the use of massive amounts of data and the application of behavioural insights from science.
In developing early data processing systems, the high cost of memory and storage led to a premium being placed on the efficiency of application data access and retrieval.
Apart from its use in airports, there are other valid uses of face-recognition technology that you do not address, such as the sifting of application data for passports or visas.
On Nov. 30, 2005, we sealed the time capsule, and copies of the application and data are now saved at Yahoo!
Fan Appz, a Facebook application taking advantage of location data sharing is running a campaign for Westfield Mall in California to encourage customers to check in for store discounts.
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React to outside power grid risks and demand response requests: To reduce risk of application outages, data centers must be able to closely monitor the facility and surrounding environment as well as their IT equipment.
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Through the application of analytics to Big Data, as well as ethnography the design and implementation of qualitative field studies to observe cultural patterns Xerox is answering important questions about congestion, our reaction to it, and how city governments most effectively can provide services to address this and related needs.
The same application had 750 ways of sorting data involving dates, all of them potentially troublesome.
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The new version of Business One is a multi-tenant version, which enables multiple customers to use the same instance of the application with their data stored separately.
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The investigations were overseen by the Article 29 Working Party, a group of representatives from each member state tasked with promoting the application of the EU's Data Protection Directive.
The guts of the application is the application X client, and the graphical display of data and input processing is done at the X server.
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Modern architectures for systems keep a clean separation of the data, application, and interface.
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Suddenly, your application and data layers look out of balance again.
The co-founders hope that Draftpedia eventually expands well beyond its current form and becomes an application that amalgamates every piece of sports data into all mobile devices.
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The key to understanding the value of a big data application is to determine how well its model fits your needs and how far the applications take you toward Analyst 2.0.
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In creating the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Bandwidth Assessment report, input was collected from a variety of application spaces (servers, data center networks, high-performance computing, financial markets, carrier and cable operators, Internet exchanges, the scientific community, etc.) and from different geographic regions.
To keep the momentum going, the Energy Department is announcing the release of 20 new datasets, three new application programing interfaces to make data easily accessible by software developers, and hundreds of qualified data links in the Energy.
This move may indicate that increasingly the buyers of big data solutions are application developers.
Bizarrely, in terms of basic business tools, the iPhone still lacks a simple way of cutting-and-pasting chunks of data from one software application to another.
With this API in place we'll be able to decouple the presentation and data layers of the application and build a new, streamlined signature process.
Instead, the software company took care of all this in the Cloud and for a modest annual subscription fee that was less than my TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) of managing the application in the district data center.
For a more dramatic example, consider the following: An investment in Riverbed Technology (RVBD), a developer of software to accelerate application performance and data transmission speeds on WANs, would have generated a 6x return, versus an investment in Clearwire (CLWR), a provider of portable high-speed wireless broadband services, which would have generated a 0.3x return.
In assessing sustainability of data storage growth, the undeniable element lies in the evolution of application technology which encompasses mobile media including everything from a laptops, notebooks, e-readers, tablets and smart phones.
Although carbon dioxide is the more important greenhouse gas, methane measurements will be a more practical early application to test the market for this sort of data.
Secondary sources of event data can include other application systems, other departments within the company, business partners, news feeds, industry data feeds, weather feeds, traffic feeds, Twitter, other social applications and other sources.
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