"We expect the global economy and world trade growth to really slow down this year, so I would be very surprised if manufacturers can pass on the sort of cost increases that we've seen in this data, " said Mark Miller, an economist at Morgan Stanley in London.
But the long-term aim is to construct computational models of specific diseases based on the data being monitored, says Mark Spire, who is the president of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners and a member of the Kansas State team.
Attempts that miss the mark can be powerful data sources to inform future design iterations.
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Yet the data were apparently so convincing that Mark Wiechmann, who worked for Exxon and holds a Ph.
"We're getting much more focused on the wealth of data we have, " said Mark Carges, eBay's chief technology officer.
The data show sales hitting their highest mark in 10 months, up 34% above a low point in 2010.
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But BBC home editor Mark Easton said some data given to journalists before the public launch had later been removed from public view.
As the volume of data continues to proliferate, it is this last step that will mark the difference between companies that are overwhelmed by big data and those that are powered by it.
When jobs data improves or when more banks either mark their commercial real estate to market or sell it at a loss to attempt to spur more investments then perhaps the commercial real estate scenario will turn around, he says.
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"We are defining a new era of convergence in technology, with one unified operating system that underpins cloud computing, data centers, PCs and consumer electronics" says Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and VP Products at Canonical.
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Facebook has found that much of what was out in the industry did not meet its own needs so it built it in places like its data center in Prineville, Oregon, said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
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The absence of price data creates particular difficulty for institutional investors that are required to mark their portfolios to market: investors in Mexico and South Korea have got around this by purchasing price quotes from independent vendors.
Beyond improving server and data center technology for others, the move by Facebook makes a mark on the larger global technology stage.
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Members and privacy groups have criticized the company and its 23-year-old founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, for implementing programs that make personal member data accessible to advertisers.
Released Thursday, the latest data show the index just shy of the all-time high mark hit back in February, 26% above its measure a year ago. (Read On The Verge Of A Global Food Crisis).
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As the data shows, the only 3 games in Week 6 that see a mark-up greater than 200% above face are games involving the Packers, Cowboys, and Patriots as the visiting team.
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"The NBA doesn't produce a lot of data, so you have to find your own, " Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban recently told an industry conference in Boston about finding competitive advantage.
"It's harder to tease data out of team sports, because the action is so diffuse, " said Mark Broadie, a finance professor at Columbia Business School.
Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Finaid.org, a website that compiles data and provides financial advice for students, said the subsidies sometimes go to students from middle-class families who attend pricey colleges, and not just low-income students.
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The Nature paper, he said, "may mark the beginning of the end of this controversy" because it relies on DNA data from unrelated people, which is harder to dispute.
Mark Colonnese , AtheroGenics' chief financial officer, said that the company stands behind its data.
While some two-thirds of small firms make it past the two-year mark, just 44% can hack it for four years, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Since then, the data revisions and a steeper than expected slump in investment suggest that 2% might be closer to the mark.
To mark the occasion, Twitter released its latest transparency report, which breaks down government requests for user data as well as copyright complaints and "take down" requests.
Official data due on Wednesday is expected to show that the number of people out of work will surpass the two million mark in three months to January.
Although the development of Windows 8 apps has slowed as a result of the recent holiday season, data collected by MetroStore Scanner indicates that that number of Windows 8 apps is expected to pass the 40, 000 mark tomorrow.
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Mark Schoenebaum, the biotech analyst at ISI Group, wrote in a note to clients that Celgene presented data on an investor call that shows that by selecting out certain types of patients, doctors might be able to screen out patients at highest risk of second cancers, particularly lymphomas.
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