Inside each sphere or square are more spheres or squares, subdividing data into finer categories.
Retail sales data excludes volatile categories like autos, gas and building materials and includes discretionary purchases such as electronics, furniture and apparel.
But it warned ministers would be able to demand "potentially limitless categories of data" unless the draft bill was amended.
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Our main recommendation is therefore that her powers should be limited to those categories of data for which a case can now be made.
But a couple of relatively new products aim to digitally collect your important data in all these categories in one easy-to-access place: either on your computer or on the Web.
In its report, the committee said the home secretary would be given "sweeping powers to issue secret notices to communications service providers, requiring them to retain and disclose potentially limitless categories of data".
There is, in essence, no data other than the categories and the random number stored in the system and so it's impossible to know (or indeed reverse engineer from that) who you are or where you've been.
We compiled our ranking of states by looking at 32 data items across six broad categories.
Instead of simply scanning for keywords, Crimson's software uses an algorithm to analyze data based on a set of categories and themes determined by the user.
The value of big data to an organization falls into two categories: analytical use, and enabling new products.
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Federal statute requires schools to report the financials for their athletic departments, and it also helps define itemized expense and revenue categories which builds uniformity in data reporting.
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This week, we will delve deeper into the kinds of surprises that are possible from new sources of data, new types of applications, and new categories of technology.
In fact, using this technique, we can move beyond the limitations of traditional approaches by running additional analysis to discover new, previously unmeasured categories based on recurring themes within the data.
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Here the data goes back to 2007 although many of the tool categories were not surveyed at the time.
And, by the way, we have data to show exactly how, and how that changes the categories in which brands compete.
Price-slashing failed to rescue a bleak holiday season for beleaguered retailers, as sales plunged across most categories on shrinking consumer spending, according to new data released Thursday.
For some things, like retail sales, the categories into which Google classifies its search-trend data correspond closely to what people may want to predict, such as the sales of a particular brand of car (see chart).
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But his data aren't comprehensive enough to make definitive predictions for various categories of storm intensity.
Combined with location, age and other info, this data unlocks an array of potential visualizations color-coded by different categories, letting you see patterns you might not have noticed before.
To determine the best city for couples, we collected data for 40 of the largest metropolitan statistical areas for five different categories: marriages per 1, 000 people, divorces per 1, 000 people, starter-home affordability, income disparity and availability of couple's or family counseling.
Recent data show chaebol engaged in more than two-thirds of 76 business categories in South Korea.
In October, the university released other data from the survey suggesting that a majority of people were concerned about categories of migrants that it was most difficult for the government to reduce.
Many of the study's categories, he pointed out, are based on surveys of executives rather than statistical data, and so are influenced by their respondents' biases.
The chart on the right takes data from the US Energy Information Agency and plots total US inventories of crude plus all other categories of liquid hydrocarbons, and shows the change between the week ending on the x-axis date, and the inventories for the like week of 2010.
Much of this data comes from Experian, a company which sorts each postcode (typically 15 people) into one of 61 consumer categories.
They have no reason to do otherwise insofar as the Soviets continue to withhold vital financial and economic data such as the scope of the payments crisis, the size of remaining Soviet gold reserves, and several other categories of information commonly revealed by other debtor nations.
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