"We're opening up a new paradigm for which there is no established system of collecting data, " de Soto says of the assessment stage of his efforts.
Speaking to Radio 4's PM programme, Tom Steinberg director of Mysociety, said he was drawn to this method of collecting data because HotOrNot style rating systems are "incredibly sophisticated clever ways of doing online polling".
Ms Perry said nurses today - just like Florence Nightingale - recognised the importance of collecting data.
The trust's initial claim that its method of collecting data was to blame was rejected by the Healthcare Commission.
The company later admitted in response to an audit request by German authorities that it had inadvertently been collecting samples of such data.
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Health Grades is trying to make its doctor ratings more empirical but will need to recover the considerable cost of collecting good data.
Instead of collecting data in two dimensions using streamers and then processing the data to produce a 3-D image, they decided to move to three-dimensional acquisition.
Online world has successfully competed with the offline world (in some cases radically better, remember the labor intensive way of collecting data using surveys, public records and questionnaires).
As part of the final year of his research at the London School of Economics, MacKerron, 31, has found a novel way of collecting data for his doctorate: an iPhone application.
Are we to believe that the Department of Education was genuinely concerned about not collecting all of the appropriate data to assess financial aid eligibility for kids with gay parents, as the Secretary suggests?
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Information is also gathered on the kinds of products individuals purchase together (i.e. a PSP and a UMD in the same trip), and strategically located "POP" machines conveniently give detailed descriptions about scanned items to customers, while sneakily collecting data of its own for those oh-so-clever marketers behind the scenes.
They're capable of collecting real time data that could then be used to control the motors.
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Companies like Google and Facebook make billions of dollars collecting anonymous data because tracking where a machine has been is valuable to advertisers.
The giant digital camera will take over 500 exposures each night, collecting about four terabytes of data (equivalent to what 1, 000 DVDs can hold).
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We are collecting a large amount of data when we know if someone has the disease or not and we train the database to learn how to separate out the true symptoms of the disease from other factors.
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"We also publish specific advice about the data protection issues that schools need to be aware of when collecting and processing personal data about pupils and other individuals, " he added.
But nothing seems to be working for the chief executive of Information Resources, which pioneered collecting data from checkout scanners to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns.
Under the overall and direct supervision of the Director of the UNESCO Office in Venice, the incumbent will receive general guidance, pertaining to policies and deadlines and carries out a variety of programme functions such as: collecting, researching and interpreting data and preparing reports of a semi-technical nature or administrative aspects.
As a result, firms are seeking new methods of collecting and analysing customer data.
Across industries, organizations are collecting and using large sets of data to get a leg up on the competition.
It also said the collecting of the details violated the Data Protection Act.
Much of the cost of collecting biometric and personal data has already been shifted to the passport service, on the grounds that passports must meet tougher international standards.
Using the first completed section of the NOvA neutrino detector, scientists have begun collecting data from cosmic rays-particles produced by a constant rain of atomic nuclei falling on the Earth's atmosphere from space .
Google is in trouble in Europe and Asia for accidentally collecting unencrypted WiFi data during some of its roving adventures.
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Then there is the challenge of collecting and sorting through the data.
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So if you know of other sneaky data collecting going on around the Internet, let the FTC know, or better yet, email me about it.
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Mr. MICHAEL CORDELL: So you can have a roadside reader simply powered using a solar panel sitting by the side of the road just collecting data, and it then transmits it back to the central system.
As luck would have it, a project called NOvA, which should start collecting data in the spring of 2013, will send neutrinos through the Earth's crust from Batavia to an underground detector 810km away in Minnesota.
The bigger risk to Facebook is that growing concern over online privacy translates into a wave of legislation around the world that makes it far harder for the company to exploit the mountains of data it is collecting.
Of course, GPS makers aren't too interested in collecting individual users' data (at least, we hope not), but they are collecting some general data, and TomTom has now released a few of its findings.
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