The importance lies in the speed of the feedback loop, taking data from input through to decision.

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Do the two together produce enough of an information deluge that building a feedback loop with it requires Big Data technology?

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It wraps around in a loop showing all five years of data.

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Not only would this push out financial actors assumptions of when tightening would take place, it would also weaken the feedback loop in which better than expected data is presumed to cause the tightening to occur earlier.

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The company wants to analyze the data collected to tighten the feedback loop for patients of chronic diseases and help them improve their behavior.

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In a smaller loop of, say, 4, 000 feet, data can hum along at up to 6 megabits per second, nearing cable modem speeds.

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His premise is that actionable advertising data should improve relevancy and ultimately enable marketers to close the loop back to a transaction.

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As dismal employment data threw the U.S. stock market for a loop on Friday, Europe worried about rising inflation and slow economic growth.

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For one thing, this kind of high-speed innovation seems to require a near-addiction to a rapid flow of data that everyone can agree on, with a good feedback loop to test ideas.

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