We now swim in a sea of data and the sea level, so to speak, is rising rapidly.
So what exactly can companies do to personalize experiences without completely drowning in a sea of data?
Another problem with too much email is that whatever gems they contain get lost in the sea of data.
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In some regions of the world, the increasingly accurate sea level data is being used by planners to mitigate against the risk of flooding.
Kearns and a team of scientists led by Alan Strong of NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service analyzed sea surface temperature data from the agency's polar-orbiting satellites from 1984 through 1996.
Average monthly Arctic sea ice extent data shows a clear deceasing trend since 1979.
In Venice, where the sea-level data was released, engineers are constructing a new set of tidal barriers to protect the historic city.
Sometimes there is a moment of synchronicity in the objects bobbing in the data sea, when a couple of facts bounce together and provide, if not a complete picture, a glimpse of something larger.
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Participants will assess the feasibility of exchanging sea-level data which can confirm the tsunami and provide information on its amplitude although, in the Mediterranean, due to short tsunami waves travel time, it is not always possible to wait for such confirmation before issuing the alert.
In 1999 he spent ten days on a fishing boat in Spain's Alboran Sea helping biologists collect data on dolphins.
"Cloud computing has brought a sea change to the data center--dramatically altering the economics of compute by changing the workload and optimal characteristics of a server, " said Andrew Feldman, SeaMicro CEO, who will become general manager of AMD's newly created Data Center Server Solutions business.
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When combined with data on past sea levels, these give an estimate of global temperatures and sea-ice cover for the past three million years.
Coastal managers are using sea-level-rise data to protect crucial infrastructure.
And retreating Arctic sea ice provides even more visible data to support conclusions of warming.
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According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, Arctic sea ice is melting faster than its average over the 1979 t0 2000 period.
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During their sea voyage, team members will obtain data on marine life, oceanography and meteorology.
Last year, the joint venture finished its seismic data acquisition in the Black Sea and plans to do the same for the Kara Sea this year.
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So far this month, weaker global data has led to a sea of equity red, with global safe haven bonds in demand and historical low yields on display.
Today, US military weather satellites return daily data on the state of the sea-ice at both poles, but the NSIDC team is keen to retrieve as much information as possible from the early, experimental Nasa Earth-observers.
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The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network (SSACN) said initial data seemed to show a fall in levels.
Overall, this will provide Esa with data covering about 2, 000km of sea ice.
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According to the US National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), Arctic sea-ice covered 4.5 million sq km (1.7 million sq miles) at its lowest point on 12 September last year.
Credit: National Snow and Ice Data CenterThe graph above shows daily Arctic sea ice extent as of March 22, 2011, along with daily ice extents for 2006, which had the previous lowest maximum extent, and 2007, the year with the lowest minimum extent in September.
Big Data moving outside the Consumer Web is like sea creatures crawling onto land.
Indonesia's government has improved its monitoring of earthquake data since then by positioning buoys to take sea-level readings and warn of potential tsunamis.
At 8:20 p.m. on the day of the explosion the pressure data suggest there was a constant flow of sea water being pumped into the drill pipe that was displacing the heavier mud system which was the primary pressure control for the well.
On top of that, data collected on land conflict with those collected at sea.
The latter is made up of six different instrument stations that gather data on plate tectonics, hydrothermal vents and deep sea creatures.
And data collected at the surface, whether land or sea, seem to tell a different story from those taken at altitude by weather balloons.
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