Integrating all these data types in one platform and using their power in full conjunction across an enterprise is the long-term possibility of Metropolis, which makes it a very different animal from traditional quant platforms.
Millions of simultaneous users play Farmville or Draw Something (which scaled up to 36 million users in 6 weeks), which requires a simple, fast, elastic database (called a NoSQL database, a new category of product designed for the age of big data), that can process and deliver massive amounts of user and other types of data in real time.
This is especially true in online analytical processing, which stores the data in an optimal form to support specific types of analysis.
New search engines have been developed, which are specifically designed to query the data types that reside in the data lake.
You are right NFC has been implemented in too many phones already but issues such as data formats and the types of services supported have typically resulted in consumers finding the NFC experience less than impressive.
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"There are several robust sites around, but we like the flexibility XTF gives us in presenting data and uncovering relationships between different types of ETFs, " Mr. Colas says.
In both cases, several unrelated types of calculation, using independent data sets, and running on a range of computers in different organisations that may not fully trust one another, have to be threaded together to achieve a coherent answer.
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Future campaigns will build off this success and spread these tactics to every part of the electoral process, continually accumulating whatever new types of data are available in the future.
"Transfer of data between different memory types has improved significantly in recent times, and will be further helped by the standards for hard drives which are currently being developed by the major manufacturers, " said Mr Larsson.
But overall, many say there aren't much data about whether prizes are more effective in promoting innovation than other types of funding, such as in-house development.
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Preliminary mapping data show that Vesta is a world layered in many different rock types and minerals, supporting the notion that it might have become a major planet had it not been trapped in the asteroid belt's powerful gravitational rip tides.
We expected the reverse, but this data indicates the ability of all types of individuals to succeed in the venture capital community and is a testament to the diversity of the industry.
Automated Insights (ai), based in Durham, North Carolina, is on a mission to revolutionize the types of content that are powered by structured data, particularly in the world of sports, finance, and real estate.
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The optical fibre network at the heart of the effort makes use of the same types of fibres that transmit data to homes and across oceans, in which light bounces along the fibres' length.
It may even be worthwhile to reconsider the outsourcing of other types of work such as data analyses and bulk syntheses now done in India and shift this work to other countries where IP is respected and supported.
The rise in the volume, variety, and velocity of data, the arrival of many new types of analytical tools all across the business intelligence value chain, and the emergence of new forms of computer science dedicated to data processing such as Hadoop, has created a vacuum.
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He distributed two pages of data on government worker staffing and salary levels in the ward government, including a, for some types of workers, comparison of salary levels in the private sector.
Mark Schoenebaum, the biotech analyst at ISI Group, wrote in a note to clients that Celgene presented data on an investor call that shows that by selecting out certain types of patients, doctors might be able to screen out patients at highest risk of second cancers, particularly lymphomas.
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Although data was not collated nationally before 2009, Acpo says it believes there has been a rise in all five types of hate crime.
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