"Regardless of what the government does with the DNA sample and the limits it places on the sample's use, all the highly personal data in it is in the government's possession, and outside the individual's control, " said Jennifer Lynch, lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
When operating properly, the monitors constantly sample the air and send data to EPA headquarters, where computers monitor the data and alert officials to unusual readings.
The London-based Science Media Centre, which assists reporters when major science news breaks, posted an entire page of criticisms, most notably its poor design, the use of tumor prone rodents, the small sample size and the selective presentation of data.
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Simon Wigglesworth, deputy chief executive of Epilepsy Action, said more research was needed, particularly given the "small sample size and the inconsistencies in the data collected".
Where bills are higher, such as in the South West, they appear to be less keen - although the small sample sizes in these areas mean that the data needs to be treated with caution.
Before genomics data was offered in the cloud, researchers had to download all the data for a given human sample and discard those portions not applicable to their research problem.
Typically several days pass between sample collection and data release because of the time required to collect, transport and analyze the samples.
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For example, despite investing in IT for decades, on a 7-point scale, the companies in the sample scored 4.66 on data quality, 4.21 on usability and 3.76 and intelligence.
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Once the sample has gone through the testing process, an analytical report is created and the data is evaluated.
This informal sample suggests that restaurants ought to invest in the data needed to analyze whether daily deals are a worthwhile way to market themselves.
The analysis, based on a sample survey of voters last year, is viewed as the best source of government data on turnout by race and ethnicity.
Thinking it might be the (poor) quality of the data, we obtained a large sample of similar data from a different source: supplier contracts.
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The economists looked at a sample of mortgages in a huge data set that covers 60% of America's residential-mortgage market.
Our sample is small, but the message was consistent and we treat these new data points as a yellow flag.
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All told, the card-delinquency rate has averaged 1.03 percent since 1992, said the firm, whose credit trend data is based from a sample of 27 million consumer records.
More than half the people surveyed couldn't tell which types of data a sample app could collect.
Iris Hendriks of the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies recently analysed data from a wide sample of research into how individual organisms respond to increased carbon dioxide in their seawater.
By setting up a few simple Excel formulas (nothing more complicated than addition and division, you can see what they look like in this sample spreadsheet), you can not only track your maintenance data (what the mechanics did, when they did it, how much it cost, and what the mileage was at the time) but also see your average daily mileage during each period between servicings.
So I hope he will look the other way as I embellish his analysis by presenting data from a sample set consisting of one person.
So Bruce Dohrenwend, the researcher in New York, went and found what he called a gold mine of data, actual combat records that allowed him to verify the claims of a sample of 260 veterans in the original study.
All told, nearly three-quarters of the servers in the sample were using less than 10 percent of their computational brainpower, on average, to process data.
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Scientists compared data from a sample area of 25 sq km (9.7 sq miles) in the Arlingham and Westbury area.
The polling that led to the data was conducted by California-based ePoll Market Research, which each month polls a nationwide sample of voting-age men and women.
Using a sample of 262 data points over a nine year period from July 2002 to August 2011, CXO found that the HSNSI had little power in predicting future stock market returns.
Yes, the listeners to the webcast were certainly not a representative sample (not that any survey nowadays is based on a representative sample) but the honest answers may have given us a good indicator of the state of IT readiness for big data.
That sample represents about 1.1 million patient visits to nursing homes nationwide in 2009, the most recent year for which data was available, according to the review.
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