He said as they "dug into data day by day we realised the pipeline and people we thought we could deliver, we couldn't".
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The disappointing export figures, however, were partly offset by strong investment data released the same day.
The data comes a day after a separate study by Markit said the manufacturing contraction in the eurozone worsened in March.
Statistically, the data is identical going back to 1897 day by day.
That is, it uses all of this computing power, and the mountains of data now being produced by each person each day, and uses it to continuously and uniquely modify products and services to every customer.
Through constant data analysis, global collaboration, and day one involvement by all creative partners, risks are actually mitigated.
TomTom's traffic database contains more than six trillion data measurements and is growing by five billion measurements every day.
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Location data gathered by the phones we call carry around every day is also not well protected by ECPA. While the Fourth Amendment law gives warrant protection against location information collected through a physical trespass, that limitation is weak since other tools can be used to avoid such legal hurdles.
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Pay-as-you-go allows customers to pay for data access on the Sprint 3G and 4G networks by the day, week or month with no long-term contract.
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It would have been like trying to read all the random bits of data generated by the entire real-world staff on any given day.
By June 2004 Semel was thinking harder about mining the 10 terabytes of data per day that Yahoo collects on Internet activity.
Other data, assembled by social intelligence company Consumersphere in Minneapolis, provided a day-by-day report that included Black Friday, the biggest retail day of the year.
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But as can happen at this time of year, the bulls managed to turn the attention to the better-than-expected data (among other things), and by the end of the day anyone owning stocks was able to head out to the mall with a smile.
Such data, which was gathered by monitoring hundreds of hours of drivers with cameras in day-to-day driving, has guided auto makers and the administration to the conclusion that "hands-free" activities are safe.
The 44-year-old is one of the world's great data wranglers, paid to help companies make sense of the gigabits they hoard by the day.
That might not seem like a big deal, but five students were arrested every day in New York City schools in the last three months of 2011, according to data released by the New York Police Department.
The data, released by the UN children's charity and UN population fund on the international day calling for an end to FMG, showed that the younger generation was less vulnerable to female circumcision in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where it is usually practised.
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