And, as a result, many organizations have a substantial internal factory that churns out data on a regular basis, as well as external resources on call that produce data for onetime studies and questions.
The China data showed that factory activity contracted for the first time in seventh months in May.
By early next year GE will have enough data from the test factory to know just how efficient the process can be.
Top managers often have little appreciation that their intellectual property, emails, data files and even factory blueprints are compromised by subpar security.
In economic data, orders for factory goods rose in February, a hair short of expectations, on rising demand for machinery, computers and aircraft.
In February, the regulator halted drug applications from one factory alleging that the company had falsified data and test results.
The bug allows malicious software to reset a Android to its factory default settings and permanently delete any data on it.
If you decide to sell your device or trade it in, make sure you wipe the device (reset it to factory default) to avoid leaving personal data on the device.
Other data have suggested Sandy slowed factory production, increased layoffs and closed some shops in the weeks after the storm, but rebuilding efforts likely added growth later in the time period.
In economic data, the U.S. non-manufacturing sector saw a slower rate of expansion in November, according to data released Monday by the Institute for Supply Management, while U.S. factory orders fell a second straight month during October, according to government data.
Other data shows a modest rebound in factory activity in the U.S. mid-Atlantic region.
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The dollar index is weaker by 0.7% at its lowest in four weeks ahead of initial claims data and an April reading of factory orders.
Traders will keep an eye on data for U.S. factory orders later Tuesday in the run-up to Friday's release of the monthly jobs figures, a key measure of the health of the world's largest economy.
Other data includes the ISM Manufacturing Index on Monday and factory orders on Tuesday.
In Japan, such contextual use of Big Data enabled officials to stop every bullet train and factory only seconds before the devastating Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck in 2011.
In 2010, 34% of rural migrant workers left their factory jobs to move back home, according to the most recent data available from the Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia project at Australian National University.
In economic news, expect to hear data on auto sales on Tuesday, crude inventories on Wednesday, factory orders on Thursday, and consumer credit on Friday.
It was the first time factory orders had fallen for four consecutive months since the government began assembling the data in its current form in 1992, the Commerce Department said.
The combination of tepid earnings reports received last week and once again mixed economic data in the form of the October Employment Report and weaker than expected factory orders for October resulted in mixed returns for the stock market last week.
Two sets of data released early Friday measuring Chinese manufacturing activity pointed to different trends in the local factory sector.
Factory production figures out today suggest America's manufacturing industry is recovering, as does some data from the New York Fed.
In the past few weeks, the data-watchers have seen unemployment go up again, to 5.7%, and factory orders drop.
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