If Groupon truly understood its customers, it would have created data to track their likelihood of referring Groupon to others.
They said they didn't like how the big consulting firms outsourced much of their research to third parties, which created data quality control problems.
"Cloud computing has brought a sea change to the data center--dramatically altering the economics of compute by changing the workload and optimal characteristics of a server, " said Andrew Feldman, SeaMicro CEO, who will become general manager of AMD's newly created Data Center Server Solutions business.
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We have data being created by news bureaus and data being created by government agencies.
"This is our data, this is our taxpayers' money which has created this data so I would like to be able to see it please, " he said.
Our models are created with data from over 50, 000 annual reports.
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Once a model is created, data scientists ideally will begin working with others to help test the models and set them in motion toward commercial application.
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While Twitter itself and certain partners maintain copies of the data created with the service, the library will preserve that data regardless of what becomes of those businesses.
Last year we did hit approximately 1 zettabyte (one trillion gigabyte) of data in the public web and the speed by which new data is created continues to accelerate, including unstructured data in the form of text, semi-structured data from M2M communication and structured data in transactional business applications.
New data is created every second and you have to take this new data and process it together with historical data.
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Ari organized perhaps the most important first step in this reform effort: Seeing the lack of baseline data, he assembled a team of researchers and created and managed a data analysis exercise involving the detailed coding of hundreds of thousands of pieces of data.
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Often the vehicle we are inserting has itself been created via CAD data.
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Once the sample has gone through the testing process, an analytical report is created and the data is evaluated.
One of the most important tasks for the researchers will be extracting meaning from the huge amounts of data created by the project.
The great challenge is to avoid digital amnesia, to ensure that records and data created today will also be accessible to humanity in the future.
According to founder Flip Kromer, Infochimps was created to give data life in the same way that code hosting projects such as SourceForge or GitHub give life to code.
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Some 880 PCs, 130 servers and 110 network switches are involved in analysing results and other crucial data created from the 35 sporting events that will be available in 2012.
Ornate mechanisms have been created to get data out, clean it, massage it, optimize it, and deliver it at high speed to those who need it to support decisions or the execution of processes.
Since there is often a 12-18 month lag between widespread recognition of a need and full staffing, many new roles will be created relating to data science, and a whole ecosystem of users and products will emerge.
But it is fraught with its own challenges, especially for architects of datacenters and mobile networks wrestling with how to address daunting scalability, flexibility and capacity requirements in order to unlock the greatest value from the information created in the data deluge.
Although a clause in the 1999 law that set Juki Net up called on the government to submit a broad privacy bill before it could become active, officials point out that the same law placed restrictions on the system it created: the data cannot be shared with (non-governmental) third parties or used for purposes that are not already specified.
The Facebook data that created it shows the connections of Facebook users -but it also hints at the torrent of representational data they create.
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By 2015, 4.4 million IT jobs will be created to support big data.
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Cascalog uses the capabilities for data processing created by the Cascading system, which has APIs for scheduling, processing, and integration.
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The grand-daddy of Internet services is Minitel, the ubiquitous on-line data service created by France Telecom (an arm of the government) in 1978-82.
According to projections by Century Link, by 2015, the world will see a four-fold increase in the amount of data being created and replicated.
Facebook said it isn't using location data from smartphones to target ads and that it has created a program to make anonymous data between itself and its data partners.
Based in San Francisco, Splunk was created to make machine data accessible to business users in intelligible form without going through the IT shop to get a report.
GlaxoSmithKline has in the past been at the center of scandals created in part by data on drugs that critics said was not made public in a timely manner, at the expense of patients who may have suffered dangerous side effects.
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Once such data sets are created, they are often cheaper to store for later use than to recreate.
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