Video-as-data means easily matching the faces in the crowd in one way or another, with Facebook as the easy but not only choice.

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Datalogix tracks the relationship between ads on Facebook and real-world spending by compiling consumer purchasing information from retail stores and matching it with data about Facebook ad impressions.

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In addition, Pentaho Data Integration (PDI) can access unstructured, raw data such as tweets, do pattern matching, find the structure, and perform sentiment analysis.

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That meant selling information to virtually anyone--inventory-tracking data to car dealers, load-matching service to truckers, coupon-printing kiosks to grocery stores and fire-alert information to forestry services.

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The part centered on identifying the customer value of social media fans requires a committed undertaking of the business itself, whether by using social survey tools to apply to its community for answers on purchase habits, or matching existing databases to social community data, or incorporating social media into media mix attribution modeling.

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Users connect their audio source to the player via analog audio input, and the player compares 15 seconds of waveform data with its internal "FingerPrints" database, matching the song up with its corresponding information from MusicID.

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As the interaction between smartphones and tablets increases, with matching operating systems and the capacity of sharing applications and data across platforms, consumers will begin to focus on OS rather than on brand.

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Instead of making drugs, they would use the high-tech tools of gene chips, high-throughput screening, combinatorial chemistry (the rapid mixing and matching of chemicals) and bioinformatics (software that analyzes data)--to develop entirely different compounds.

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