And astronomers are just as likely to point a software query-tool at a digital sky survey as to point a telescope at the stars.
In July, astronomers from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which aims to map out a million galaxies, published a research paper in which they superimposed their own galaxy-clustering data on Wmap's microwave data.
Mapping the modern distribution of these superclusters is one of the tasks of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (another foundation-funded instrument, based in New Mexico), which is scanning a quarter of the sky in unprecedented detail.
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Todd Boroson and Tod Lauer of the US National Optical Astronomy Observatory analysed some 17, 500 spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and have now found just such a pair of emissions coming from a distant quasar.
Tom Coughiln of Coughlin Associates and Jim Handy of Objective Analysis, two market and technology analysis firms who write blogs on the Forbes web site have initiated a survey of digital storage end users.
As of November 18, 2009, based on a Casio survey of shock resistant digital cameras (excluding protruding parts).
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Readex Research, the company that conducted the survey, revealed that digital duties added the most to editor job descriptions this year.
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In fact, a new survey by shop.org, the digital division of the National Retail Federation, says that 97.3% of online retailers will offer discounts during Thanksgiving weekend before Cyber Monday, up from 90% last year.
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This was reinforced in my mind by an informal, non-scientific survey I recently conducted among a handful of digital health thought leaders, asking who they would designate as the most important digital health investors.
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Babyboomer dating site OurTime.com commissioned an online survey of 2, 258 adults which asked them how they felt about digital spying.
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Mr. Lutz has made a smart and representative survey from the past 15 or so years, before and after the digital revolution, and as the supersizing of photography has become the norm.
According to a recent survey conducted by Wakefield Research, the majority of college students (67%) use digital technology every hour.
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The survey covers a period known as the "information revolution" as human societies transition to a digital age.
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