Yes, Wikileaks type data losses are a threat for any organization but for the vast majority it is not a likely threat.
What most everyone on CNBC and Bloomberg look at are consumer opinions, independent survey type data and extremely inaccurate initial job and income estimates by the U.S. Government.
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The industry now has the capability, in both data and infrastructure, to handle finer, census-type data, letting advertisers go a step further and accurately, repeatedly, and consistently predict sales if different advertising is placed.
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Splunk focuses specifically on the challenges and opportunities of effectively managing this type of data.
Crooks use this type of data to perpetrate all manner of identity theft crimes.
Because Dropbox enables people to save any type of data, it can be used for virtually anything.
That can be a chore, even though both products try to make it easier with predefined templates for each type of data.
If used properly, Verizon hopes that this type of data will help coaches and athletes catch a progressing injury before it happens.
In the posting Monday, Winkler drew a distinction between this type of data and "important" customer data, which he said has not been compromised.
Mozilla has endorsed an icon system for websites to use to convey the type of data they collect and how they use it.
According to research by CEB, a member-based advisory firm, 90% of the organizations they surveyed had some type of data breach in the past year.
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From a technology coverage point of view, as opposed to politics coverage, Yahoo could bring this type of data analysis and prediction engine to other content verticals.
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The information that AOL revealed is essentially the same type of data that the U.S. Department of Justice demanded from the company and its search competitor Google in March.
"The market for this type of data and packaging is just out of the gate, " says Jay Sears , head of development for Edgar Online in South Norwalk, Conn.
Operators need to offload this new type of data traffic to Wi-Fi networks fast, to relieve the 3G networks as they plan their build-out strategy for even more mobile data use.
This type of data can easily dilute other useful information, so it is important for companies to implement centralized enterprise information management technologies that can prioritize data to be organized and analyzed.
Some of those questions center on the amount and type of data that can be shared among private companies and with the government, and to what extent the government can get involved in protecting private networks.
The information that AOL revealed is essentially the same type of data that the U.S. Department of Justice demanded from the company and its search competitor Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) in March.
The results are not directly comparable with those of last year's list, both because we added a new type of data and because the Office of Management and Budget has reconfigured its metropolitan statistical areas. (To be considered a metro area, OMB requires at least one urbanized area of 50, 000 people.) Essex County, for example, wasn't even considered for a spot in the 2005 edition.
So what are the keys to bringing the power of big data to the masses via this type of small data approach?
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Spoken language is in itself a serial data type: it must be consumed in time from front to back.
This type of passive data collection that is followed by active intervention might be the one-two punch that many people need.
Some types of expenditure are estimated by reference to an average level of spending for a particular household type, using data from the Family Expenditure and Food Survey.
The public safety community believes that the block of spectrum it had been allocated is not enough to enable the type of interoperable data, video, and future voice services needed to ensure that all public safety organizations including federal, state, and local agencies could communicate during incidents.
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Under one type of agreement, FFIs can report FACTA data to their own governments who then exchange information with the IRS. Under the second type of agreement, FFIs must register with the IRS and report FATCA data directly.
Therefore, it is possible to apply a lot of cutting-edge social network and social gaming-type analysis to the data.
But more analysis of this type, using better data, is needed.
Through this type of analysis, big data actually becomes useful.
Mint, owned by Quicken, is PageOnce's largest rival, with the same type of personal finance management and data security.
However, I now see executives in nearly every type of company interested in using data to help make better decisions.
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