Nielsen BookScan data tracks about 85% of the nation's physical book sales based on information supplied by national retailers and independent booksellers.
WiseWindow data tracks many attributes of each of these entities, such as quality of music, quality of live performance, and popularity of performers.
Much of the data that tracks our businesses is found in structured databases that record transactions and contain other process related information.
Salesforce so far is thought of solely as a software company, but the data it tracks every day on behalf of customers could one day have tremendous value.
The fourth tier is an Edge Server that brings in contextual data, tracks and analyzes interactions through APIs, provides caching, and supports real time analytics to operationalize all available signals.
Winners were selected based on data assembled by FactSet, a U.S. market data company that tracks analysts' recommendations and earnings estimates.
IMS, which tracks data at the pharmacy data for drug companies, also saw other signs that things are getting tougher for drug companies.
You can see here his year in review, where he tracks data about where he sleeps, what he reads and how much he runs.
"The No. 1 entree ordered by men in America is a hamburger, " says Henry Balzer, a vice president with NPD Foodworld who tracks data on eating habits.
For a quick simple answer, I went to IMS Health, which tracks prescription data.
Miller values homes, including trophy properties, and tracks sales data in major markets along the East Coast.
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" Says Eric Sacks of Emergency Care Research Institute, a nonprofit that tracks recall data: "The system is overwhelmed.
In a voyeuristic twist, it also tracks user data and uploads it to the Web, where publishers can analyze it.
It also provides surveillance to help hospitals manage data that identifies and tracks healthcare associated infections and automate central supply workflow with instrument, repair and sterilization management.
What I like about this data is that it tracks reality.
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Rates on 30-year jumbos now average 4.22%, down from 4.82% a year ago and 5.27% two years ago, according to HSH.com, a website that tracks mortgage data.
The broad value of machine data is that it tracks micro activity that can then be used to detect larger trends or to track specific flows of activity.
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By contrast, the national average rate for a home-equity line of credit is 5.15% and for a 30-year "private" jumbo mortgage it is 4.08%, according to HSH.com, which tracks the data.
Catherine Rampell, writing in a recent New York Times Economix Blog, cited data from PayScale that tracks the wage gap between equally educated men and women through their careers.
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The GAME GOLF elegant and discreet wearable device tracks the data around the course, and uploads the data automatically to an intuitive app which allows you to track, analyze and share the data collected.
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Could the patterns of homelessness near the Caltrain tracks provide better data in predicting violent crime in San Jose?
Unlike other automotive research firms, Polk tracks car registration data, not sales figures.
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The piece referred to a compensation survey from Pay Scale.com, which tracks the compensation data of graduates from U.S. colleges.
Rather than track sales figures, Newzoo tracks consumer market data.
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For those looking for a better way to figure out just who a site is sharing data with, Marotta Wurgler recommends PrivacyChoice.org, which tracks terms of service on individual sites and summarizes their data-sharing schemes.
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Google, for its part, got higher marks from the EFF for its Transparency Report site that maps and tracks government requests for data.
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New York-based data firm Radar Logic, which tracks values by sifting through housing transactions in the 25 largest U.S. cities, reports that through April 30 values were up 1.9%.
Online sales were up 39.3% on Thanksgiving Day and 24.3% on Black Friday compared to the same days last year, according to IBM's Coremetrics, which tracks real-time data from 500 retailers.
We based our rankings on the median home sales prices between July 2007 and June 2008 for each ZIP, as collected by First American CoreLogic, a national real estate data collection and research firm that tracks over 150 million parcels in over 3, 000 counties, amounting to 99% of all real estate transactions.
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