"We need to collect data to conduct business for all sorts of reasons, " says Gartner Group analyst Alexander Linden.
The aim here is to use a more flexible approach, to collect data that shows how moods vary between people.
Companies are eager to collect data, but that data is worthless until someone translates it into insights that drive business results.
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The first step in managing lending and trading risks is to collect data on the frequency and size of past losses.
They managed to collect data on 277 directors who served on multiple boards concurrently, one of which was associated with financial fraud.
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Clinical research also costs more because of the need to get HIPAA waivers to look at charts to collect data for studies.
Some centers that had been awarded contracts to collect data have been discontinued, and follow-up has been handed over to outside contractors.
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Street View cars, used to collect data for location-based products like Google Maps, mistakenly collected samples of payload data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks.
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The systemic risk regulator is empowered to collect data, recommend new regulations and intervene when a company is considered to pose a risk.
Haupt and Alstin started on the project seven years ago, staging thousands of accidents with stunt riders and dummies to collect data on movement patterns.
But now PlayTales is trying to move away from using Flurry and figure out how to collect data on its own because of Coppa concerns.
This fall Portmann will send one to hover over tsunami sensors embedded on the ocean floor to collect data and beam it back to shore.
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The alternative is the Bayesian method, in which you simply guess at the answer and then continue to collect data as it comes in.
That is dead on in describing the need to collect data.
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Planetary defence advocates say it is imperative to collect data on the asteroid's path as soon as possible to know whether it will strike our planet or not.
This second mission is supposed to loft the Proba-V satellite to collect data on land cover and vegetation changes over the entire globe every couple of days.
This is kind of funny as being a first to pay a nominal amount to collect data, but my concern is who and if they are selling it.
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They also use aging-brain software to collect data on symptoms, track the stress level of family members and monitor how well patients' goals and needs are being met.
The idea is to build a mobile tool to collect data through toilet ID mechanism to identify, track, and resolve problems around latrine maintenance in schools (or other public latrines).
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Last week, OnStar issued a privacy notice informing customers that it would continue to collect data on vehicles still connected to its servers, even for those who have already canceled their subscriptions.
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When they got a match to a surname, the researchers ran numerous Internet searches to collect data on each individual's family tree, including obituaries, which often list the names of a deceased's family members.
The Hawaii Natural Energy Institute (HNEI), University of Hawaii at Manoa will work with AeroVironment and Hawaiian Electric to collect data from chargers to analyze the impact of EVs and associated infrastructure on the power distribution grid.
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The law additionally prohibits the government from making the argument that, since guns can be deleterious to the health and wellness of people, it would be within the goals and objectives of the ACA to collect data on who has weapons in the effort to protect the health and wellness of of Americans.
Badgett, director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Williams Institute scholar Jody L. Herman reported that for 11 states that have some form of legal partnership for same-sex couples, and for which they were able to collect data, on average just over 1% of the couples split each year.
They are still much less likely to collect mobile data (only 19% of those surveyed collect it), and social media data (35%), than they are to collect traditional customer survey data on demographics (74%), usage (60%), and attitudes (54%).
If you want to truly gain competitive edge in the market by leveraging the power of data for decision making, then your data team has to collect and store data appropriately to enable easy and seamless access by business users.
Mr. Schneider set up a data firm, College Measures, to collect such data, and hopes to report his findings later this year.
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Until then, Facebook is going to continue to grow, will continue to collect more data, and people will continue to hand over more and more of their personal information to a single, private, business.
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