In any case, as Dr Church points out, there are myriad ways, ranging from hacking by miscreants to clever cross-referencing of public data and health records, that supposedly private genetic data could become public.
The ultimate aim for Big Data is to incorporate multiple sets of data, (preferably) both proprietary (internal) data, with public (external) data and to discover insights into the business through a combination of hypotheses and analyses, augmented with intuition to generate new business innovation.
Demand Equal Pay for Women is just a page of data, though its developers have done some of their own calculations on top of the public data, and the site has some good statistics: closing the gender pay gap, they say, would add half a trillion dollars to the consumer economy.
By reselling their public data, Twitter is the first social service to monetize its raw data in this way.
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Last week, IBM Research announced a pilot with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Public Health Data Standards Consortium to work on standardizing the exchange of health information among public health departments, doctors, and the CDC.
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Instead, they were generated by software that taps into external public data about you.
The public transport data features railways, tram and bus lines, stops, stations and access points.
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Case-Shiller relies on public records data, hanging back to release the most stable numbers available.
Meanwhile the government's drive to free up public data has hit a few roadbumps.
We grew total market share in the third quarter according to the most recent public data available.
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University researchers gain access to a wealth of heretofore non-public scientific data, along a nice chunk of change.
And web developers have to find ways of ensuring that the public data being released are used effectively.
Developed economies are awash with public data to be crunched and pored over by analysts and market researchers.
An open source team just discovered the first planet known in a 4-sun system, just by parsing public data!
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Large capacity HDDs using this technology will find uses for near line content libraries, cloud storage environments and public data centers.
Give Web designers in Chicago and Oakland access to public police data, and they create innovative crime-mapping tools that prevent muggings.
Public data, unearthed and crunched admirably by IndiaSpend, reveal that upwards of 47, 000 police are deployed for VIP protection nationwide.
And in June it published the Coins database of public spending data.
Twitter has been the dominant force in Social TV (at least from a public data point of view) and it grew organically.
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Consultants and advertising agencies regularly evaluate them using public survey data.
Campaigners have pressed for a wide range of public data, from mapping information to MPs' expenses, to be made available on the web.
This includes not only classical and traditional literature, but also public data and official information produced and voluntarily made available by governments or international organizations.
In addition, RSA has been adding more obscure, less public, data.
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Stock performance of public data-center companies had been strong until recently.
The public college data is based on a survey of institutions.
Consultancy and advertising firms regularly evaluate them using public survey data.
The commission had been inundated with complaints that the company was making public data about its users that it had said would be kept private.
By harnessing real-time public social data like tweets, blogs and YouTube videos, companies now have a view into what a customer talks and cares about.
With its own tab in Salesforce.com, it builds a social graph of your social and physical networks augmented with public data from Zoominfo and other sources.
Finally, within eighteen months, DoITT will work with each agency to post a compliance plan, describing all of the public data sets in each agency's possession.
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