Instead of poring over pages of reports if I can see the data in bar charts, line graphs, pie charts or integrated with geo-spatial tools, I can make a lot more sense of it.
But unlike some of its more sophisticated cousins, it feeds directly from the html site and does not yet have the ability to call up data based on bar or QR codes on food packaging.
Forbes and other magazines give readers scanners for bar codes on ads, deriving data on who reads what.
There even was a dynamic bar chart showing the streaming nature of the data.
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In a math session LaDonna Turner teaches second graders the concept of a data range, as seen in bar charts representing numbers of pets.
Now, you might be tempted to think that since each figure here is in a bar, sitting next to other bars and pointed at the top, you are looking at a bar graph, designed to help you compare data.
It is also tricky to capture the data in the field and stick the bar-code labels on the produce as it is picked and packed.
But, thanks to the web, you can now create your own collection of ideas and data without all the pain of manipulating data into a plain, old chart or bar graph form.
And increasingly, payers who have viewed claims data as proprietary, are willing to let go of clauses that bar their customers from sharing them with a third party.
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But the black matrix bar code symbols have become a harbor for malicious code writers who devise ways to steal personal data.
Separate figures, compiled by the Local Data Company (LDC), suggested the proportion of shops lying empty increased in every region in Britain bar London between January and June.
And last, but definitely not least, the improving data and the corresponding rally in stock prices tells us that the stock market is beginning to raise the bar in terms of expectations going forward.
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