The crude green screen interface had fields that needed to be filled in for show titles and genres (effectively turning what would have been text into valuable metadata data about the data) as well as three summaries of different lengths for each show.
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Asking for the data, asking questions about the data, pushing for insights, and taking actions in response to those insights shows the rest of the company what role marketing analytics plays in decision making.
All this is kind of a tempest in a teapot, but also because with the extended followup data, the discussion isn't even about the current data.
Any time a company collects data about the consumer, it also transmits data back to the consumer.
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This is similar system to that used by some heart pacemaker systems, but these only report back technical information about the condition of the implant, rather than gather extensive data about the condition of the patient.
The letter poses eight questions for Google about the data the gadget will collect about users and non-users.
The app relies on a combination of collaborative filtering and the parsing of data about the ingredients, cooking methods and other variables that comprise a dish into linked and relational data.
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While Facebook said it wouldn't pass these websites any personal data about users, users and privacy advocates grew nervous when they learned that the data about the Likes would be public.
The irony is that many Lib Dem peers are far less concerned about the Communications Data bill than they are about the Justice and Security Bill.
BeenVerified.com said the reappearance of Mr. Cox's information was a mistake, but concedes that sometimes data about individuals resurface when the company adds new data to its system.
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Under the self-imposed guidelines, collecting health and financial data about individuals is permissible as long as the data don't contain financial-account numbers, Social Security numbers, pharmaceutical prescriptions or medical records.
But here is the funny thing about the data disclosed today by the Treasury.
The cookies collected data about the online activities of web users in order for Google to provide more targeted advertising to them.
And to address the concerns about data loss of the sort that affected Megaupload customers whose files were seized by the FBI, Mega will store all data on two sets of redundant servers, located in two different countries.
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But even if customers can truly make informed decisions about the storage and handling of such data, they have no right to consent to the use of data that is collected about passersbys whom they record, intentionally or not.
Liquid Robotics, the US company behind the project, collected data about the Pacific Ocean's temperature, salinity and ecosystem from the drone.
The parents want different scientists researching the diseases to share data about the patients so the children won't need to participate in so many studies.
For them the technology has the potential to provide valuable data about the demand for their medicine in order to plan their distribution more efficiently and precisely.
Because the U.S. census does not ask questions about religion, Pew's survey, called "America's Changing Religious Landscape, " provides one of the most reliable sources of data about the country's religious demographics.
ThingWorx, in its early client implementations, has also flourished by capturing and preserving much more about what is known about data in addition to expressing the relationships between data in ways that are not possible outside of a graphical database.
At its core, Big Data is about the ability to extract meaning from massive volumes of disparate data.
"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.
The torpedo-shaped instrument gathers data about the difference between the level of the seawater beneath the ice and the surface of the ice itself.
This helps educate the homeowner about wise energy consumption choices, while given the researchers data about actual consumption.
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By the end of 2010, some 70% of the funds had been spent, although data about the details are sketchy.
By the time it closed, the commission produced thousands of pages of data about the inside operations of the financial world.
That would let the search giant throw ads or other data about the product your way, giving you the info you need to snap it up -- and likely not hurting Google's bottom line.
For Ms Gallagher at Demos beefing up the power of the Information Commissioner to enforce the Data Protection Act would help redress some of the imbalance between the data companies hold about us.
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In the past year or so, much of the talk about Big Data has obscured the fact that the real issue is enabling intelligent and instantaneous analysis to provide optimal insights for business decisions.
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