The goal is to extract a smaller set of data that can be analyzed, using any of the same visualization or analytical tools that would be used for other data types.
The moral of this story is that information hoarding in order to leverage Big Data tools may work in the structured data world, but will not work in the broader information world that includes unstructured content (the Word file, PowerPoint presentations, CAD files, audio files, and other large data types that dominate corporate information stores).
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Which is no surprise, as algorithms to predict certain types of data are often easily portable to other types of data.
The satellite images picked out the right type of afforested land, and topography, which, when combined with other data on soil types, rainfall, and temperature, produced a clear "Loa Loa map" of several African countries, including Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger.
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.
Other types of data, such as sensor output, may be useless drivel to prying eyes.
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Such wearable computers combine physical reality with augmented video, text or other types of data to provide a distinct interactive experience.
For many companies, the sheer complexity of managing a data center so that it meets all regulatory, industry and governance requirements, and is also protected against all other types of data loss, is overwhelming.
Not only do you have to load all types of data about your employees, you also have to load job profiles, assessments, training modules, and dozens of other types of third party data.
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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.
Customers benefit from a new, feature rich user interface that provides one-click access to all of their preferred local and global services but also benefit from a browser that is much faster and more data efficient compared to other browsers, reducing the amount of data consumed by 30-90% depending on the types of services and files accessed.
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Integrating collaboration as a horizontal layer into the enterprise app incorporates new data types such as conversations, tags, comments and other collaboration content into the enterprise app itself.
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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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Performance data show that sponsor-to-sponsor deals did underperform other types of deals slightly on an absolute return basis by 3 percentage points, on average, in the years prior to 2004, and by 8 percentage points since then, according to PERACS, a PE performance analytics company (see Figure).
Opportunities, another one of the core CRM data objects, for example, can be repurposed to represent many other types of activity.
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In the face of all of those daunting challenges, more and more businesses and other types of large organizations are turning to cloud computing to let them handle the surging volumes of data and demanding workloads in a manner that also lets those customers begin spending less on low-value overhead and infrastructure and more on customer-facing growth initiatives.
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