On Thursday January 8th he predicted that data would show that America had lost more jobs in 2008 than at any time since the second world war.
While the various pundits bloviated and predicted, Silver and a number of others crunched the data and once again predicted the outcome with amazing accuracy.
With data consumption predicted to reach 120 Exabytes by 2020 (eight times more than today ), the seamless mobile lifestyle will create a significant strain on network and data centre infrastructure if companies continue to deploy incumbent technologies.
The eventual short-term outcome cannot be predicted by looking at fundamental data or charts.
Servers will need to have faster, low power processors to handle all the vast amounts of data that is predicted.
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Some have predicted eventually 99% of data may be stored on spinning disks yet 99% of accesses will be happening on SSDs.
The association predicted that the US and UK would see data revenues exceeding voice by 2014.
The combined amount of tablet and smartphone traffic is predicted to generate 2.7 exabytes of data per month in 2015.
This data point also stymied economists, who predicted that orders would fall only 5%.
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Its reasoning was that most offers are made on the basis of students' predicted grades, and there was a lack of reliable data on those.
The data also exceeded expectations from economists, who had predicted an increase of 0.6% in the quarter.
Rather, they point to a 1998 International Data Corp. survey of emerging markets, which predicted that Web-based training is poised to explode.
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The representation was so accurate it predicted what M. genitalium looks like, just from the genetic data.
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Overall, retail spending rose by 1.1% last month, new Commerce Department data shows, greater than the 0.9% predicted by economists.
As data accumulate (usually by getting closer to the time of the event being predicted) he sharpens and then further sharpens the predictions offered.
Last month, scientists at the US National Snow and Ice Data Center said Arctic summer ice was almost 30% below the long-term average, and predicted 2007 would show the lowest ice cover on record.
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Analysts at International Data Corp. (IDC), a sister company to Computerworld, and Forrester Research Inc. predicted that most users would move to NT 4.0.
One operator, EE, has predicted that its customers alone will use more than 226 terabytes - 236, 978, 176 megabytes - of mobile data as they took to Twitter and instant messaging services.
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