That moment of inspiration brought together the physical world of products and the virtual world of data, laying the foundation for a data-based, digital economy.
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People like Phill Hocking asked was it possible that the Kauffman Foundation compiled the data incorrectly?
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The charity, E-Learning Foundation, extracted the data on computer ownership and internet access for families with children aged under 18.
Billions of dollars in global health and environmental policy and intervention investments depend on a strong data-driven foundation to be successful.
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Our base foundation around virtualization of Big Data has been tried around the world under the most pressing conditions and across applications and transactional systems.
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The problem first came to light when a member of the public contacted Basildon and Thurrock Hospital Foundation Trust's internal data controller in November 2010.
The British Heart Foundation said much more safety data was needed.
Third, the data provides the foundation for surprisingly strong predictive models.
Dr Paul Kelsey, medical director for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, said the data should be treated with caution as it did not give a true reflection of the quality of care patients can expect.
The main complaint was not the U.S. and European economies, but about taxes and fees charged by local governments, regional protectionism and tight credit, said Fan Gang, director of the National Economics Research Institute at the China Reform Foundation, which compiled the data.
And of course, now that the foundation is in place, the data collection can only accelerate.
These data will form the foundation of the souped-up public tests the politicians want, although more banks will be included.
Indeed, people over 55 are almost twice as likely to launch successful companies as those between 20 and 34, according to data from the Kauffman Foundation.
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When I analyzed company founder data from the Kauffman Foundation, I was shocked to learn that only 3% of the tech firms were founded by women.
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Additional data from the Kauffman Foundation 2011 U.S. Census Business Dynamics Statistics report shows that, excluding the jobs from new companies, the U.S. net employment growth would be negative over the past 30 years.
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According to an analysis of Labor Department data by the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City, Mo. research organization focused on entrepreneurship, in 2011, the typical new business had only 4.7 employees, compared to 7.7 employees in 1999.
Other recent data does not help: recent retail sales confidence data from the Getulio Vargas Foundation has shown sequential year-over-year drops in March.
Not according to data from the National Science Foundation.
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That is the conclusion of new research I have just completed based on an analysis of state taxes, spending and debt policies and their economic consequences based on data provided by the Tax Foundation, Sales Tax Institute, U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S. government.
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Public Citizen, a watchdog group, collated data from the Kaiser Family Foundation in April 2007 to create the only ranking of how Medicare programs rank state by state, the basis for this ranking of the worst places to be sick and poor--that is, the places where it would be worst to get stuck on Medicaid.
The new report also served as the basis of a well-attended workshop on Wednesday addressed by a renowned expert panel at the 2012 Internet Governance Forum Panellist Katitza Rodriguez, from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, pointed out how correlations of data could allow inferences about the religious views and sexual orientation of individuals, at a time in history when privacy was still an emerging right.
While Asian economies are among the fastest-growing in the world, offering a strong foundation for rising commercial-property prices, recent economic data has been less encouraging.
On the other hand if the data had been dual licensed to the OSM Foundation or me personally then we could have switched the license much more quickly.
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According to a review of data from the Census Bureau by the Kauffman Foundation, between 1980 and 2005 companies less than five years old created roughly three million new jobs each year on average.
But before we see the promised potential realized, a solid IT foundation has to be built and the specific questions big data could answer or the optimal government sector activities it can improve must be defined.
We exclude (among others) academic institutions, charities with just a few donors (such as most private foundation), religious entities not reporting numbers and nonprofits whose data we question.
The data, from the U.S. National Science Foundation, is for the ten years to 2007.
The AAA Foundation report was based on the most recent U.S. data available, and current generation cars, pickup trucks, vans, and S.U.V.
Julian Adams, a chemist at Millennium Pharmaceuticals, came to a foundation dinner meeting Giusti had organized at the Boston Hilton with stunning data on a drug he had invented.
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