Facebook also has come under fire for sharing data with advertising companies that could tell them who clicked on ads.
Topsy uses Twitter's high-volume fire hose of data to look at every tweet in the world, and establish a neutral baseline.
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There are ways to systematically sort through the fire hose of data based on applying the principals and discipline of pattern recognition.
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Companies will begin to leverage this fire hose of data to design products that will better match customer needs which will provide an exponentially more valuable customer experience.
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There are good two ways to protect your data from fire and other disasters.
Russia's death rate rose by more than a quarter during August's heatwave and forest fire crisis, official data show.
The tests simulate both normal circumstances as well as preparing the team for the unexpected, with tests of how data will be crunched in the event of a data centre fire, virus infection or other crises.
Market participants should keep in mind that since it is going to take some horrendous economic data (yes, it can get even worse) to convince Captain Bernanke to fire up the engines, that very data may spook the markets, so it is probably overly optimistic to expect things to run on cruise control for the next few months.
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Amazon also figured out how to do the real processing before data gets to the Fire through a cloud-based scheme that should result in faster access.
Similarly, data from the National Interagency Fire Center show the number of U.S. wildfires is on a 35-year downward trend.
According to PC Mag, Amazon said that lightning struck a transformer near its data center, causing a fire that left the center powerless.
Fire death reports are pulled together with census data, ordinance survey maps, historic trends, and Mosaic data (consumer profiling) among other sources.
But on Sunday the National Transportation Safety Board completed its examination of flight recorder data from the jet that caught fire in Boston, and determined that the affected battery did not exceed its designed voltage.
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The result is data that goes directly into computers that fire off trades with almost no human interaction.
Mr. Gary, former chief of the Livermore-Pleasanton fire department in California, says fire departments never have been required to develop precise data.
Speaking about the January 7 fire in Boston, Hersman said the plane's flight data recorder showed the battery underwent an unexplained drop in voltage from 32 volts to 28 immediately before the incident, as the plane was being serviced on the tarmac.
The promising industrial data from Europe this morning only added fuel to the fire.
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The truth is: the risks of a data breach are much higher than the possibility of a catastrophic fire.
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Smaller rural agencies can also access the data to maintain assets in the field like water lines, fire hydrants, trails, vegetation, wildfire mitigation areas, and more.
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The ESC's studies also included fire and accident trends from the Department of Communities and Local Government and data on the number of high risk electrical items in homes from the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
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On the subject of finding cars with the best mileage, though the EPA issues industry-accepted fuel-efficiency data, we must add that the agency has come under fire in recent years for conducting mileage tests that don't approximate typical driving.
Fire authorities and ambulance services will be given automatic access to phone and internet data along with six other state agencies.
Instead, the Novartis data, published in The Lancet, is adding new fuel to the fire.
Google, for example, has come under fire in the past for the way it handles a massive database of user search data.
The practice has come under fire in recent months, especially since DoubleClick announced plans to start combining anonymous online data with personally identifiable information.
Certainly it makes sense for fire, police and other public-safety officials to be able to talk and share data with each other.
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They monitor news media, government agencies, airline Global Distribution System, corporate data bases, the Centers For Disease Control and foreign health organizations, police, fire and many foreign outlets.
But it drew fire last year when it was revealed that one of the parties interested in the GPS-motion data was Dutch law enforcement, so it could figure out the best place to set up speed traps.
Data from those sensors is then run through the company's proprietary algorithm to determine when to fire the LEDs.
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