To achieve its goals, Zynga uses the results of continuous data analyses of player activities to test and fine-tune features in their games.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress does not report data on the family income of test takers.
Innovation: The team creates thousands of evolutionary designs during the racing season, based on terabytes of sensor data, test runs, and computerized simulations.
According to a Boston Globe analysis of test data, FAA agents, posing as passengers, slipped 234 guns and other weapons past screeners at Logan -- the worst record of any major U.S. airport in the past 10 years.
Among schools without a policy, more than a quarter say they have checked out a student's online persona, up slightly from last year, said Jeff Olson, vice president of data science at Kaplan Test Prep, who conducted the survey this summer.
As one factor among many, test scores can provide useful data, but as the primary means of evaluating teachers test scores are too unreliable.
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Gathering data from several of Cisco's test customers, he found that the cost to operate the router is a fifth to a half the combined energy usage and maintenance costs of the hardware that hosts the same services.
The system gathers nearly one million data points during a typical series of 24 test swings.
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Actually, said Jennifer Nayar, head of global data products at the firm, most are taking both so they can test the value of the analysis NYSE Technologies performs.
Then you can test the accuracy of your data by actually trying out what you observe and learn.
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Although spacecraft instruments are set to return photographs and compositional data, the encounter primarily is a test of Deep Space 1's autonomous navigation system, the last of 12 technologies the mission was designed to pioneer.
This new interpretation of the data is about to undergo the ultimate test.
Although carbon dioxide is the more important greenhouse gas, methane measurements will be a more practical early application to test the market for this sort of data.
Merck's (nyse: MRK - news - people ) decision is based on new three-year data from a clinical trial designed to test the effect of Vioxx on preventing colorectal polyps.
Scientists tended to have a checklist mentality, passing a drug to the next stage if it narrowly worked in the previous test, instead of reviewing all the data to see whether the project still made sense.
As a result of the lack of policy mandates and capacity to fully test chemicals as they come to market, complete toxicological screening data are available for only 7 percent of the more than 84, 000 chemicals currently registered for use.
Instead of predetermining a model and then using the available data to test it, we start with the raw data and see where it leads.
The McLaren Group makes use of telemetry systems that utilize data generated by race car sensors in test and practice sessions as well as actual races.
You create experiments to test variations of your Web pages and then allow the data to determine a winner.
What if the training tape has data from March 9, 2009 and is intended to test the robustness of trading systems?
Well, it is fabulous to be able to create a development or test environment so quickly, but the use of production data represents a huge risk.
"The vehicles will cover thousands of kilometres in test drives and evaluations to gather valuable research data from every-day driving scenarios, " said Christian Ress, technical expert, Ford Research and Advanced Engineering.
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Boeing did receive one spot of good news this week: The Federal Aviation Administration gave the company the OK to fly test flights of the Dreamliner in order to gather more data on the battery problems.
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In order to perform a field trial with a regulated article, a researcher must apply to USDA for a permit and submit a huge amount of data, which makes genetically engineered plants extraordinarily expensive to develop and test.
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In order to test the theory they analyzed whether their data fit the predictions of a well-known theoretical model of short-termism developed by Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein, who was recently named to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Because the experiment was designed to test the ability of current networks to carry high-bandwidth data, no explicit QoS support was employed.
For one thing, this kind of high-speed innovation seems to require a near-addiction to a rapid flow of data that everyone can agree on, with a good feedback loop to test ideas.
The headline of a recent article on Harvard Business Review: Marketers Flunk the Big Data Test.
But GMI's data were put to the test in an October 2009 study that measured the correlation of GMI's rankings to stock performance from mid-2003 to mid-2008.
The study from which the newly released data was taken, APPROVE, was designed to test whether Vioxx prevents the formation of colon polyps that can lead to cancer.
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