When that happens, critical decisions slow to a crawl, trapped in an endless cycle of data collection and debate.
Veteran market watcher Jim Stack, editor of Investech Research is bullish on stocks, and recent data from the Economic Cycle Research Institute showing leading economic indicators at their highest level in more than 20 years reaffirms his outlook.
To the extent that America's economic cycle typically leads the European cycle, American data may help to assess the future path of output and inflation in the euro zone.
While a few argue that Big Data has peaked in its hype cycle, many practitioners contend it is still in very early stages of development.
They are given accurate data about the likelihood that any given cycle of treatment will work.
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Companies like Progressive Insurance and Capital One who have built successful businesses around their ability to mine big data are well aware of this virtuous cycle.
There were limitations in what could be analyzed, due to the inflexibility of data warehouses and relational databases, but the process for cleansing, sorting and analyzing data was well understood as a complete cycle.
The richness of data made available through open data allows for a much more rapid research cycle, and hopefully a greater breadth of topics being researched.
Independent researcher John Franklin analysed data in Australia, the first country to make cycle helmets compulsory.
Perhaps the greatest winner this election cycle was Nate Silver and the other data-driven analysts.
Many Splunk clients have discovered that machine data is not just about the break and fix cycle but can also reveal important information about customers and partners.
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The latest economic data has been somewhat uninspiring, suggesting another mid-cycle slowing of economic growth, not unlike what we experienced about this time last year.
Big Data is now deep into the hype phase of the innovation cycle.
But here we come full cycle: we can often use the same big data we mined for our initial potential insight to in turn test that insight.
The idea was to create a way to Google your own data in main memory, to create much faster decision making cycle. 100, 000x faster than any other technology in the world, he says.
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Data Vault is very extensible so it could inherently support the life cycle of growth of sources.
Only your data throughput speed will change if you use 3GB or more in one billing cycle on a 3G or 4G smartphone or 5GB or more on a 4G LTE smartphone.
First my environmental life cycle assessment research with Stanford and NRDC exposed me to a bunch of great data sets, which quantify sustainability impacts for most products and services.
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It is this philosophy that will enable broker services and insurers to provide the data organizations need to realize the financial gains promised them so early in the cloud hype cycle.
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That was the effect of a decision taken by the committee on April 21st, which cited as obstacles the lack of data on corporate defaults, and the difficulty of testing such models over the entire economic cycle.
With the additional data that the satellites provide, researchers hope finally to shed light on the Earth's complicated carbon cycle.
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With satellites providing data from thousands of additional locations, researchers hope finally to shed light on the Earth's complicated carbon cycle.
ECONOMIST: Two new satellites will monitor carbon dioxide emissions
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