Asking for the data, asking questions about the data, pushing for insights, and taking actions in response to those insights shows the rest of the company what role marketing analytics plays in decision making.
The crude green screen interface had fields that needed to be filled in for show titles and genres (effectively turning what would have been text into valuable metadata data about the data) as well as three summaries of different lengths for each show.
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For Ms Gallagher at Demos beefing up the power of the Information Commissioner to enforce the Data Protection Act would help redress some of the imbalance between the data companies hold about us.
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All this is kind of a tempest in a teapot, but also because with the extended followup data, the discussion isn't even about the current data.
The app relies on a combination of collaborative filtering and the parsing of data about the ingredients, cooking methods and other variables that comprise a dish into linked and relational data.
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While Facebook said it wouldn't pass these websites any personal data about users, users and privacy advocates grew nervous when they learned that the data about the Likes would be public.
The letter poses eight questions for Google about the data the gadget will collect about users and non-users.
This helps educate the homeowner about wise energy consumption choices, while given the researchers data about actual consumption.
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However, the real marketing gold mine lies in the data about patients that drug companies are collecting from calls to toll-free numbers and visits to websites.
Before this study was finished, the CPSC panel concluded, based on the data about chewing and saliva, that children would have to mouth toys containing DINP for at least 75 minutes a day to have even the slightest risk of health problems.
But here is the funny thing about the data disclosed today by the Treasury.
Carl Lavin, Forbes.com managing editor, said that the initial alarm about the data was sounded by an alert reader.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reportedly been calling her counterparts abroad to give them the heads up about the data dump and what might be in it.
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But even if customers can truly make informed decisions about the storage and handling of such data, they have no right to consent to the use of data that is collected about passersbys whom they record, intentionally or not.
"We also publish specific advice about the data protection issues that schools need to be aware of when collecting and processing personal data about pupils and other individuals, " he added.
Google has said data recorded by the device would be bound by its current privacy policy, meaning it could be collected in an anonymous way and the company would hold data about specific individuals only if they explicitly agree to it, the same as with smartphone-related data.
Liquid Robotics, the US company behind the project, collected data about the Pacific Ocean's temperature, salinity and ecosystem from the drone.
The parents want different scientists researching the diseases to share data about the patients so the children won't need to participate in so many studies.
The complaint notes that before Facebook's latest move the only data about individuals that were publicly available were their names and the regional or national network within Facebook that they belonged to.
The irony is that many Lib Dem peers are far less concerned about the Communications Data bill than they are about the Justice and Security Bill.
BeenVerified.com said the reappearance of Mr. Cox's information was a mistake, but concedes that sometimes data about individuals resurface when the company adds new data to its system.
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This is similar system to that used by some heart pacemaker systems, but these only report back technical information about the condition of the implant, rather than gather extensive data about the condition of the patient.
Under the self-imposed guidelines, collecting health and financial data about individuals is permissible as long as the data don't contain financial-account numbers, Social Security numbers, pharmaceutical prescriptions or medical records.
In the past year or so, much of the talk about Big Data has obscured the fact that the real issue is enabling intelligent and instantaneous analysis to provide optimal insights for business decisions.
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"It's a lot more fun fondling feathers, but, the whole point is to learn about the data and be able to do something with it that is going to have an impact, " Walsh said.
There are other quibbles to do with the quality of the data and assumptions about cause and effect.
The fundamentals of the data center change about every 10 years.
For them the technology has the potential to provide valuable data about the demand for their medicine in order to plan their distribution more efficiently and precisely.
Because the U.S. census does not ask questions about religion, Pew's survey, called "America's Changing Religious Landscape, " provides one of the most reliable sources of data about the country's religious demographics.
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