The problem is that much of this data is relative: it portrays the situation today versus last year.
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Shaman converted the guinea pig data from relative humidity to absolute humidity and found the link between air moisture and flu spread got much stronger.
Due to data caps, many data users might be tempted to go for lower priced plans, thus slowing down data revenue growth relative to our expectations.
This relieves data scientists from having to be Hadoop managers and MapReduce coders, and it also lets business analysts field new questions across large data sets with relative ease.
Much has happened since 2005, when the World Bank last collected its data, but the relative orders of magnitude are still striking.
European markets traded mostly higher, with the Stoxx Europe 600 gaining 0.5%, as the relative calm in Cyprus overshadowed mixed data out of Germany.
European markets traded mostly higher, with the Stoxx Europe 600 gaining 0.6%, as the relative calm in Cyprus overshadowed mixed data out of Germany.
Likely because schools that suspect they perform poorly relative to their peers resist publication of this data at all costs.
The most striking--and downright shocking--data are the disparities in the relative chunks of income that go toward food and drink.
The weaker-than-expected housing data helped push some investors towards the relative safety of Treasury bond.
Given this, how are the newest smart marketing people dealing with the volume and velocity of data and using it to gain insight relative to what consumers want and need?
Both Xtandi and Zytiga, which are pills, have similar overall survival benefit relative to placebo, and quality-of-life data.
At the same time, residential construction companies have decreased the amount they spend, relative to sales, on advertising and payroll, Sageworks data shows.
The strongest data, from prospective cohort studies, is a relative risk of 1.26 for consuming a soda a day and developing diabetes.
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Stated differently, based on the data provided by the Census Bureau and the Internal Revenue Service, the relative tax burden of the top 5% of American earners compared with the remaining 95% has grown from roughly three-to-one prior to 1980 to almost six-to-one today.
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What is discovered here is the impact of the one year where the best relative return of the portfolio blended with gold and real estate might be skewing the previous data.
"It was a very fast-moving market today, but the data for trading volume and value, while robust, were not terribly high relative to last Thursday's selloff, " said Yoshihiro Okumura, general manager for research at Chibagin Asset Management.
And just to go back to what Jake was talking about and this revision, are you talking about historical data that talks about the job losses during the course of this recession or something relative to the January numbers?
This seems inconsistent with recent data on profits, income, weekly jobless claims, ISM readings, record low inventories relative to sales and solid consumption growth into July.
In the past month, the average ratio of trading in bearish options relative to bullish options has risen to its highest level since October 2011, according to options-data firm Trade Alert.
Overall municipal debt is relatively low and debt burden (the ratio of how much is paid on debt service relative to total budget) averages under 5% according to the most recent U.S. Census data.
These are just two data points, but in aggregate households are making less money now with fewer people working on a relative basis.
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