These transmit data to buoys on the surface, which in turn relay the information to NOAA by satellite.

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This new data deluge, sometimes known as Big Data, promises to provide us the opportunity to turn information overload into an asset for better decision making by applying analytics.

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From the perspective that these pieces provide, it is clear that the DOD cyberspace strategy is too narrowly focused on cyberspace as a technological domain that stores and transmits information-as-data, which in turn leads to a primary emphasis on defending the infrastructure itself (i.e. risks to) and its commodity.

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The first statement that anecdotes are data is playing out as new information technology makes it even easier to turn stories into snapshots of mood and opinion.

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But whatever the data's academic value, scholars like Owens find themselves struggling to convince companies to turn over the information.

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