As you can imagine, with this much at stake, even old Mother Nature has the odd data-set you can refer to.
Dr Giles explained that the measurements gathered by satellite provided a continuous data-set and had a number of advantages over other methods.
An indication of the sector's importance was given by the latest mammoth data-set from Alasdair Northrop and his spreadsheet team at Scottish Business Insider magazine.
To achieve this, the company needed to run complex data mining models on a large volume of data, which took at least three weeks of processing time, even with a subset of the 2.8-petabyte data set.
More important, Intel's breakthrough 100-MHz 440BX chip set moves data 50 percent faster than the old 66-MHz boards.
It culminates in the creation of a set of data-driven design criteria that will guide our idea generating processes.
Such companies have a vast amount of sensitive data, and the mind-set until now has been to avoid exposing this information in any way to an online medium.
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Big Data also brings new skill-set challenges.
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Mr Browne said the BBA, which was in charge of collating the data used to set Libor - a key bank lending rate which became discredited after revelations of manipulation by banks - would do everything it could to fix the issue.
All these have a survivorship bias: investments mentioned at dinner parties, stocks charted in Value Line, entrepreneurs featured in FORBES, stock market histories (does your data set include the --100% compound annual return on Russia over the past century?), available hedge fund performance numbers and every mutual fund ad.
While big data is an extension AND augmentation of traditional analytics, it requires data scientists with a new skill-set.
It will, for instance, require countries to set up national data-registration offices, so that individuals have easy access to information about them held on computers.
In fact, the researchers re-examined the same data set and found that people who dumped their friends who gained weight were even more susceptible to obesity.
This means that content from the 2011-2012 and 2012-2013 certain was the data set I was hunting for, with episodes having run during the 2012 calendar year.
After studying the large set of image-data, the cluster revealed that indeed it could, in addition to being able to develop concepts for human body parts and -- of course -- cats.
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation demands that every research project it funds has to make its full data set freely available, like open-source software code.
The fantastic response and uptake from our customers and beta testers is allowing Connected Data to set the standard for what peer-to-peer storage can and should be.
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But the forecasting firm Macroeconomic Advisers, which prepares the report with ADP, warned Wednesday that its estimate of December job growth might have been stronger than merited because of seasonal-adjustment problems specific to the ADP data set.
The firm says ASTC is a "revolutionary" new algorithm - or set of instructions - that will allow software designers to use the same amount of data to describe more image detail than had been possible before, or to use less data to provide the same amount of detail.
This data set, created by shoppers themselves using in-store scanners, records the type of goods bought by various income groups between 1994 and 2005, as well as the prices paid for them.
Big Data is set to completely change the way we deliver health-care services.
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Kauffman crunched a data set from the Census Bureau covering the years 1977-2005.
It handles video, voice, data, DVD and 3-D gaming, a feat that set-top leader General Instrument has yet to pull off.
In Venice, where the sea-level data was released, engineers are constructing a new set of tidal barriers to protect the historic city.
To move them to the consideration set, earn additional engagement with compelling data and in-depth content.
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But web application security caught up and a well-defined set of practices now exists to protect sensitive data.
To activate mobile access to your Quicken data, Intuit requires you to create a new set of log-in information.
The economists looked at a sample of mortgages in a huge data set that covers 60% of America's residential-mortgage market.
Eurodollars thereby failed to follow the tendency towards higher interest rates set by longer-dated maturities and after both data reports remain higher in price and lower in yield on the day.
Entrants to the consumer-finance business are soon expected to gain access to valuable data when Terranet, a new industry-run credit bureau, is set up next month (assuming blocking efforts by Takefuji, the industry leader, which claims that it might be illegal to disclose some data, fail).
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