Net-natives like the Influencers see the Web as more than just a data bank.
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According to the Global Soil Moisture Data Bank, global soil moisture increased throughout the 20th century at almost all sites.
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Wendler hopes to build up a broader data bank of personal profiles, which will include age, gender, religious and ethnic background, to advance the software.
The information gathered by Perfect Citizen could also have applications beyond the critical infrastructure sector, officials said, serving as a data bank that would also help companies and agencies who call upon NSA for help with investigations of cyber attacks, as Google did when it sustained a major attack late last year.
The IRS and DOJ have a goldmine of data from bank deals, whistleblower claims.
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In 2009, Assange told the newswire IDG that he possessed five gigabytes of data from Bank of America, which was more than he could easily publish at the time.
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The bank will soon report data on international bank lending quarterly, rather than just twice a year, and it hopes to help spot incipient crises by providing information on borrowers' obligations at home as well as abroad.
However, the weekend China data also showed bank lending growth weaker than expected in September.
It hit an all-time high of 5.4% in the July-September quarter, according to latest central-bank data.
Developers can now create web software, mobile apps or Google Motion Charts based on World Bank data.
The index is compiled on a quarterly basis using official government statistics or central bank data where available.
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Mr Henry used data from the Bank of International Settlements, International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and national governments.
Data showing rising bank loans and other credit, another key indicator, also might be inflated, according to Thornton.
With no independent verification of data received from Bank of Spain how can any consultant sign off on anything without announcing major caveats?
World Bank data shows that Brazil, the country with the strongest internal market in Latin America, is also the least trade-dependent economy in UNASUR.
For example, what can prevent the BYOS vendor from sifting through customer data if a bank clerk decides to store files in DropBox, for instance?
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The index is proportionally weighted based on foreign-exchange trading volume data from the Bank for International Settlements' triennial central-bank survey on global foreign-exchange market activity.
Central bank data last week showed the current-account gap widened to a record 6.7% of GDP in the October-December quarter, from 5.4% in the preceding quarter.
Nodding to World Bank data that it takes 151 days to clear formal hoops to open for business in Indonesia, he vows to more than halve that.
But, looking at what's happened to lending and other economic data since the Bank re-started quantitative easing last autumn, many in the City are wondering how much difference this extra liquidity is likely to make.
Some 37% of households in the UK have an Isa, according to the research - which draws on data from the Bank of England, HM Revenue and Customs, and the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Bank of England describes the Merlin numbers like this: "these data are not collected under the Bank of England's statistical code of practice and definitions of data vary across banks".
The 16-digit account number stored in your card's magnetic stripe zooms across a leased phone line to the merchant's bank, zips under the Pacific to Visa's data center outside Tokyo and rides the Visa network to the data center of your issuing bank in Delaware.
To elaborate, this video discusses the Rahn Curve, which augments the data in the World Bank study.
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To do the study, Abraham gathered data from a large bank where 44% of branch managers were women.
According to the most recent data from the World Bank, there are about 37 vehicles for every 1000 people in China.
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He also examined data from another investment bank and a publishing company.
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Our starting point is data from the World Bank's "Doing Business" rankings.
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