They supplied us with arrival data for the largest U.S.-based airlines for the last three holiday seasons, which we define as Nov. 20-Dec. 1 for Thanksgiving and Dec. 20-Jan. 6 for the winter holiday. (We examined only arrivals because departure delays can often be offset once a plane is airborne.) The U.S. Department of Transportation also tracks flight information for the holiday season, but FlightStats' list of airlines is more comprehensive.
Indeed, with the arrival of big data, the speed of change, and the need to react and adapt quickly, agility has become paramount for CMOs charged with driving growth.
The rise in the volume, variety, and velocity of data, the arrival of many new types of analytical tools all across the business intelligence value chain, and the emergence of new forms of computer science dedicated to data processing such as Hadoop, has created a vacuum.
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The participants in the challenege will get a two month set of data from the National Airspace System, which includes a slew of data such as flight number, origin, destination, take-off time, arrival time, latitude and longitude at frequent interim waypoints along the journey and weather and wind data.
The world of telecoms is in rapid flux as the data explosion generated by the Internet and the arrival of competition from well-financed and aggressive upstarts turns the old order upside down.
Java is efficient at zipping lots of data across a network, but it overworks processors on arrival.
That will be especially useful over the next few years, with the arrival of third-generation mobile networks able to carry large amounts of data and provide high-speed Internet access.
The FLS data or lack of will probably keep a sidelined BoE until at least the arrival of the new Governor Carney in the summer.
With the imminent arrival of tablet computers like the iPad, which come with wireless modems, the appetite for downloadable data could hit a gigabyte a month (see the lead story in this week's Business section).
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