If websites balk, he has a backup source of data: the users themselves.
The Registry will also provide a rich source of data for long-term research.
One more source of data could make its forecasts even more accurate.
Loyalty cards can be another source of data, said Cox, who has run them on four continents for GE Money Global.
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Spitzer was launched in 2003 and has proven to be an invaluable source of data about planets outside the solar system.
Having the ability to automatically combine any source of data and compare it to live network flows makes many more things possible too.
In the last century, Claude Shannon demonstrated that adding more data is needed to decrease uncertainty in data transmissions, prompting the creation of another source of data.
Removing this potent source of data from someone attempting to thread their way through a crucial conversation is like asking someone to drive a windy country road at sixty miles an hour with their eyes closed.
Another source of data, the World Federation of Exchanges, notes the number of publicly listed companies on national exchanges has fallen from 8, 823 in 1997, at the height of the dot-com boom, to fewer than 5, 000 at the end of 2011.
The confrontation of ideas at these workshops has definitively advanced the discipline to a level that archaeoseismological evidence is now considered as a complementary source of earthquake data in the whole range of approaches in earthquake science.
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Part of what has made WikiLeaks so much more effective than traditional hacking efforts, after all, is that whistleblowers with privileged accounts within computer networks are a far more efficient source of embarrassing data than hacking techniques such as random searches of filesharing networks.
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To identify the key genes involved, he realized he would need a massive source of DNA data.
One source of financial data can be prepaid debit cards, he added.
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The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the main source of education data used to monitor progress towards national and international goals.
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.
It was designed and formulated by CEA Market Research, the most comprehensive source of sales data, forecasts, consumer research and historical trends for the consumer electronics industry.
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One source of the data inaccuracies is that FINRA and the SEC have two completely different registration systems each revealing different types of information about the brokers on their respective systems.
But they say it will be 2018 at the earliest before they can even start incorporating data from the programme into their estimates - and there are no plans to replace the IPS as the main source of migration data.
"We don't have any way of confirming the source of the data, or what else might have been taken, but it does appear that the files do contain at least some genuine Apple UDIDs, " said Graham Cluley, a senior tech consultant at Sophos Security.
In recent years, passing on sensitive data points like e-mail addresses and credit card codes to marketing partners has also been a frequent source of corporate data breaches--about 40% of all breach incidents were a result of a third party's handling of data, according to another Ponemon study, released in November 2007.
Bing has been slowly increasing its share of American searches and is working with Facebook on integrating social-networking data into its results in a bid to improve them. (This is another reason why Google wants its own source of social data.) People are also being offered more and more digital information via other sources, including specialised search engines and software applications on smartphones.
So why not channel the relevant data streams into a single source of valuable customer data?
According to the National Federation of Independent Business, the data source of the study, there are 5.8 million small businesses across the country.
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The smartphone era increases again the rate of data inflow, as consumers carry with them a streaming source of geolocated imagery and audio data.
How many man hours are spent validating the source and validity of data in reports?
Zero coincidentally, that same day EMC released an open source version of its data warehousing software, hoping to attract the kind of developers who might otherwise work on R.
Donald Palmieri, a gem certifier and market analyst (and source of the pricing data used in the chart), is skeptical of the idea, and not only because he was himself burned in the 1981 diamond crash.
But adoption of open source software does not necessarily mean adoption of open source-based big data technologies.
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This unchecked flow of data is a new source of sensitive information and creates security loopholes for serious cyber attacks.
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