Google has already come up with new ways to organize hard-to-find information like images, newspaper archives, scholarly papers, books and geographic data.
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My background was in Trading Systems for banks, so I decided to learn about GPS, how to programme a mobile phone (smartphones were just appearing then) and developed a server to hold the parking regulations and geographic data taken from a couple of enlightened authorities.
Concern with the loss of access to data and even the destruction of data will lead to geographic dispersion of data.
As an example, he cites the opening up of geographic positioning systems data in the mid 1980s, which now is embedded in a range of commercial applications.
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The goal is to amass a consistent set of data across a broad geographic region and sense it periodically to develop temporal data sets.
For example, many applications are now annotating their data with geographic information: latitudes and longitudes, addresses.
To determine the rankings, we started with a list of the largest metropolitan areas in the continental U.S. Thirty-five candidate cities were chosen based on availability of data and geographic diversity.
This side event will launch an initiative to establish a common spatial data framework for vulnerability analysis and adaptation planning, linking a wide range of relevant data using Geographic Information Systems (GIS).
Integrated with this are continuously updated data streams for thousands of weather monitoring devices across continents, social media data from various leading services, detailed individual and micro-geographic demographics, comprehensive business census data, and numerous other datasets.
The report provides analysis by industry and geographic region as well as data on premium pay, stock ownership guidelines, perquisites and benefits, and board composition and structure.
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These transaction and other datasets are growing rapidly in terms of percentage coverage of all consumer transactions, variety of data sources, data granularity, and geographic coverage.
This means that SAP products will eventually come with geographic mapping capabilities that offer the ability to visualize data that are powered by Google Maps.
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Cloud economics, including server cost, resiliency, scalability, and product lifespan, are promoting migration of workloads across servers, both inside the data center and across data centers (even centers in different geographic areas).
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However, household survey data reveal even further inequities based on the geographic location and household wealth of students.
Data compiled by GMAC in the 2012 World Geographic Trend Report indicates that the percentage of GMAT score reports sent to US business schools in 2012 has dropped from 81 to 76 percent since 2008, and those sent to schools abroad have increased proportionally.
Equant's edge is that, in geographic terms, it has by far the world's largest commercial data network, extending into more than 2, 000 cities in 220 countries.
One contains healthcare data on more than 20 million persons in the United States in different geographic areas and includes special populations, such as children and pregnant women, and another provides access to U.K. electronic medical record data on almost 10 million persons receiving their health care from a general practitioner.
This can also lead to friction between entities that engage in cross-border data transfers, as well as between branches of the same company separated by geographic borders.
Much like Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap is a collaborative, crowdsourced and global project of over 650, 000 contributors dedicated to revolutionizing digital maps by creating a free, editable and interactive map of the world using data from satellites, GPS logs, local knowledge, and other sources of geographic information.
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