My focus now is on analyzing the data, not just providing it based on the data, for instance, how can we increase revenue or control costs?
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"What would be a bigger threat to Google is if regulators changed their stance about how it uses data, for instance telling it that it can no longer collect information about browsing habits, " he said.
We for instance collect data with two or three ideas in mind in terms of what we want to examine and test with them.
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His data indicated, for instance, that people who bought cheap, generic automotive oil were much more likely to miss a credit-card payment than someone who got the expensive, name-brand stuff.
Environmentalists typically use the same sources, but, as Mr Lomborg lays bare, are much less scrupulous about setting short runs of data in their long-term context, for instance, or about quoting ranges of data, where that is appropriate, rather than whatever extreme of any given range best suits their case.
However this provision is open to interpretation and may be understood to apply only to an entity which outsources the data processing in the first instance.
For instance, other data presented at the recent oncology meeting seem to indicate that Evista, an osteoporosis drug made by Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ), may also prevent breast cancer.
Google, for instance, stores search data for 18 months after a search is performed.
For instance, by using data-driving marketing, retailers will learn which consumers value bonus reward points over price-matches.
Growth could be concentrated in smaller firms that are harder to invest in, for instance, or the data could be unreliable.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), for instance, stores search data for 18 months after a search is performed.
We hesitate to bring up anything to do with the ongoing debacle that is SPOT, but the guys over at Microsoft's most left-of-center division helped popularize the concept of "glanceable" information -- ubiquitous, high-demand data (weather reports, for instance) that can be gleaned quickly and with little or no user input.
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For instance, he ran the data on the locations where ambulances picked up patients with fall injuries, and discovered that a single building in central Camden sent more people to the hospital with serious falls fifty-seven elderly in two years than any other in the city, resulting in almost three million dollars in health-care bills.
For instance, his approach of examining data at a global level, while statistically sound, tends to mask local environmental trends.
Britain, for instance, recently passed the UK Data Protection Act, which fines companies for losing personal data related to its customers or employees.
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The data might be used to determine, for instance, whether a particular aisle is too dark or cumbersome or whether products are placed too or too low.
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The new version of Business One is a multi-tenant version, which enables multiple customers to use the same instance of the application with their data stored separately.
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Data from the General Social Survey, for instance, shows businesses with employee stock plans laid off workers at a rate of just 2.6% in 2010, compared with 12.1% at companies without such plans.
"It would be most useful for countries where they don't have much rain gauge data or weather radar - in Africa for instance, they do have mobile phones, at least in areas where the population density is high enough, " he told BBC News.
For instance, it doesn't use data gleaned from a person's Gmail account to target ads to that person elsewhere online.
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Consider careers where your thoroughness and attention to detail are valued for instance, as a contract lawyer or data guru.
In every instance, such interviews provide a qualitative data point that anchors your thinking in a perspective that is important, if not imperative.
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Earlier this month for instance, supporters released 5 gigabytes of data which they said uncovered collusion between the Brazilian government and financial sector, with CIA involvement thrown in.
The data companies maintain that gathering the prescription data is good for public health--for instance, it might show that in a poor area with a high asthma rate too few inhalers have been prescribed.
However, these numbers should be taken with a grain of salt because the more detailed the data on causes of death, for instance, rather than death as a whole the less statistical significance can be ascribed to them.
Signatories to the agreement, which will probably be presented for ratification this summer, must have laws on their books that allow, for instance, quick seizure of incriminating computer data and its distribution to authorities in other countries.
The FIX spec, for instance, barely touches on how to secure data as it travels over the Internet.
Watch a 20-second ad, for instance, and you win three megs of data.
The chief executive of one business-to-business (B2B) company, for instance, hired market research firms to gather data about its promoters and detractors.
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