To have good maps you need lots and lots of user-generated data.
When Splunk is used in the data center, many different collections of server logs, network logs, or other machine generated data are indexed so that the data can be searched and distilled.
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As we shift from the web 2.0 era into the age of curation, we must figure out what to do with this newfound appreciation of quality over quantity when it comes to our human-generated data.
The most fun part about the conference, to me, was to see all these new cool use cases popping up, where our customers are innovating and starting to ingest device-generated data and do analysis on it.
Merit Cudkowicz, an ALS researcher at Harvard Medical School who was an investigator on a standard lithium clinical trial, said social network-generated data can offer valuable insights, but she cautioned that the PatientsLikeMe study was not a substitute for more rigorous studies.
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Systems which rely only on internally generated company data will be analytically outperformed by systems which can use this ever-expanding plethora of data.
For example, most organizations have their data in structured relational databases like Oracle, but much of the data generated today is unstructured, high-volume web data or machine data.
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Hitachi's version "scrambles data using a password-generated key" as the data is written, and then descrambled with the key as it is retrieved using the highly-touted Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.
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At the same time, the volume of data being generated is accelerating exponentially, making tools to access and use data even more critical.
It is up to the physician to input and interpret the data generated by Adjuvant!
More properly, apps are dynamically generated views of data that a user can directly manipulate.
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The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that the amount of data generated is growing by 40% each year.
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The goal is to use the data generated by user ratings to produce a map of "scenicness".
Another way to gain competitive advantage is by doing smart business with big data generated by smart machines.
Data generated by the agency's app will be analysed to help fine tune navigation software for its own drones.
The data generated by the group can be used to decipher the individual.
The medical device industry has concluded that Hugo has no legal rights to the data generated by his own heart.
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His well-written post basically says that significant revenue growth for Facebook can come from selling data generated by Facebook users.
Our strength is our ability to help manage, extrapolate and analyze all of the data generated by this new technology.
Next, we were helped identifying possible problematic companies by using scoring data generated by Audit Integrity, a financial analytics company.
The ability to do this is remarkably enhanced when we include patient data generated with new with tools like DNA sequencing.
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The first concerns the availability of patient data generated in clinical trials.
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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.
"There has been an implicit assumption that if we just generated enough gene data it would coalesce magically into a complete understanding of cancer, " says H.
And, he stresses, the volume of often useless data generated by social media users during outbreaks of contagious diseases should not be viewed as a problem.
The McLaren Group makes use of telemetry systems that utilize data generated by race car sensors in test and practice sessions as well as actual races.
The dynamic data generated by the secure container appliance will improve the safety of the container and eliminate the need for non-invasive inspection or green lane processing.
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Vastly more information may be created, collected and analyzed by the smart meters compared to the data generated by dumb meters and gathered by monthly meter readings.
For instance, a company called Cloudera distributes a version of Hadoop, a program which helps firms process and analyse the unprecedented volumes of data generated by large websites.
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Spanning the San Francisco Bay Area Region, the new Smarter Traveler research initiative collects and analyzes traffic data generated from existing sensors in roads, toll booths, bridges and intersections.
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