We live in an age of big data, in which firms are data rich, but insight poor.
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But the new transactions Visa wants to handle will be more complex, more "data rich, " as techies say, carrying such things as advertising messages and customer loyalty points.
As the simple uses begin to drive use cases that shed increasingly rich data, there will be new opportunities to build businesses based on analytics and the meaningful presentation of rich new data to teachers, parents, students, and others who have an interest in teaching and learning.
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So far, the cost of synthesizing and sequencing such very long strands of data-rich DNA as from the book remains too high to make the technique a practical commercial data-storage medium for the foreseeable future.
Data-rich Facebook, with 500 million users, is one of the most sought-after sources of information.
The resulting index is a mix of trend reportage, expert findings, data-rich analysis and future-positive prediction.
What about pulling up sales leads or mining deep Business Intelligence data via rich analytical dashboards?
Preston McAfee, Vice President and Research Fellow, who left his position at CalTech for the more data-rich environment of Yahoo.
It has two advantages: the data-rich ShotLink statistical system and well-heeled fans.
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The first, of course, is towards mobile, in which people increasingly want their video to be sent to phones and tablets as part of a data-rich stream of content.
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Since then, Kuchera-Morin has added the number of pixels in the mix, for sharper visualization, and brought in colleagues from other data-rich fields to try and create new understanding of what they are doing.
Another hurdle is that the capacity of these kinds of cameras to capture data-rich images is far outpacing the ability of computers to usefully process the millions of pixels that make up the picture.
The world is slowly moving away from the desk-bound browser and interacting on their handheld devices, where screen estate is a premium and users are far less forgiving of banners, obtrusive text, and data-rich media adverts.
Smartphones are often on and tethered to their user, transmitting rich data to the app developers.
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Savvy sellers can now tap that rich data lode to develop and deliver precisely targeted digital incentives.
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Salesforce tracks a slew of sales-rich data--leads, detailed histories of who bought what when, and how to reach them.
The need to access rich data and content is being driven by a highly mobile and increasingly connected user base.
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There is still point of sale information of course, as well as other caches of rich data (census, scientific research results, medical data, etc.).
Examining these rich data, the study provided an extraordinary opportunity to explore the factors surrounding resilience among a pool of more than 2, 000 scholarship recipients dating back to 1984.
Rich data - Unique to Contour, a GPS receiver allows users to capture and share a different perspective, providing beautiful HD video with overlays for speed, elevation, and distance.
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Google has rolled out applications that enhance shopping on-the-go including indoor maps as well as mobile coupons and targeted local search with rich data such as inventory, store hours, and consumer reviews.
In theory all the rich data on Facebook-- such as age, gender, geography, schooling, entertainment tastes and brand preferences--are available to marketers whose customers give them permission to see their personal data.
Today, these technology solutions make it possible for sports organizations to effectively leverage their rich data assets and take their analytical capabilities to the next level beyond the rudimentary game, player, or scouting stats.
Fusion-io is pleased to now be able to offer this technology to emerging market leaders to help them redefine what's possible when it comes to cost effectively delivering rich data services to millions of people around the world.
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The underlying promise is to provide companies a rich set of offer content, a marketing engine capable of reaching customers over multiple channels including email, SMS, social media and ads, an integrated transactional platform, and a rich data and analytics engine to optimize targeted delivery of offer content all within company branding.
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To be attractive to new users in those regions, Foursquare needs rich venue data there.
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This is just one example of the power of unlocking rich government data sets and services to the public and is exactly what the Digital Government Strategy is trying to accomplish.
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They are what you get when you plot data for poor and rich countries together at a given moment in time, but actual levels of various pollutants in any individual country plotted over time wiggle around a lot more.
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