Google gives away a somewhat more primitive service than Omniture's called Google Analytics, but Google retains its own file of the data people plug into it.
Instead of sending the data to an expensive lab testing company, you may plug the data into your laptop and use free software and analyze it yourself, or go to your local doctor and have him do the same.
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InfoChimps is creating a big data cloud that is optimized to connect to corporate data centers to allow companies to plug in directly to huge quantities of data without having to move it.
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Payroll departments need two or three weeks to plug the data into their computers.
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Doctors need time to make well-informed decisions about drugs, and data take months to plug through the pipeline that turns them into studies in medical journals.
To do this, you could run a "Monte Carlo simulation" in which you plug historical weather data into a computer and then roll a pair of virtual dice 10, 000 times.
By the way, if your prospective business partner balks at the idea of a trial run for your partnership, recognize that as the valuable piece of data it is and pull the plug.
The glove can also plug into a PC for data syncing and charging of its battery.
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Obvius has pioneered a portfolio of plug-and-play data-collection and communications applications based on an open architecture, which allow users to monitor electric, water, gas, environmental and renewable energy information through a single, web-accessible platform.
But the best part of what they did with the data is an interactive tool that lets you plug in any actor or director and chart his or her rise and fall in reviews.
Sales data shows that consumers have been showing more interest in plug-in hybrid and hybrid vehicles, over all-electric cars which have a limited driving range.
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If desktop computers and terminals proliferate in hotel rooms and other locales, Dulaney thinks users could more easily carry personal data files and applications around in tiny memory cards that just plug into any available desktop system.
While most people assume, perhaps because of TV shows or movies, that authorities can plug in a serial number and gather all the data about a gun, Mike Bouchard said that actually couldn't be further from the truth.
In a pilot project, Columbia researchers are gathering data on FedEx EVs to write artificial intelligence programs to manage where and when the trucks plug in.
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Chevy's Volt could be different--there aren't too many other plug-in hybrid electric cars to compete with at the moment--and the Vincentric data is just a prediction of future worth.
FM, Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel hope their service will be able to suggest sites that you will like through a browser plug-in that captures the sites and pages you visit, and then uses this with anonymized data from other others to power the suggestions.
Grokker acts as a plug-in that sits on top of a search engine and, by reading tags written into the data with the XML software language, arranges the results of a search into a ring of spheres or an array of squares labeled to show each one's relationship.
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