By plotting perceived humanness along the horizontal axis and eeriness along the vertical, Dr MacDorman says that he can recreate Dr Mori's chart of the uncanny valley, this time using real data about how people feel about a particular robot or animation.
These estimates are made by economists and data analysts at Zillow using an algorithm with real-world data from contractors, such as finish levels and material rates.
The details of how DataXU goes about it are less important than the underlying principle: using data in real time.
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The team has experimented with simulated flights using real-time meteorological data.
Sickweather claims to be different because it operates in real time using data from social networks, rather than news reports or internet search terms, and is designed for use by individuals, rather than public health officials.
The transformation driven by a data lake will implement the paradigm of operational intelligence, a more real-time, automated way of using both structured and unstructured data, both from real-time sources and historical repositories in a way that allows analysis to be as automated as possible.
One manifestation is precision steerable drilling using real-time microseismic imaging and continuous data acquisition enabling companies to weave through meandering hydrocarbon-rich seams.
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Of course, real-world manufacturers are also using big data to gauge customer interest.
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Farsite, a data science firm that is normally in the business of predicting and analyzing problems in the worlds of real estate, retail and gaming, is using data from 40 years of Hollywood awards shows.
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In their research paper, the two scientists say that using a mixture of archived news reports and real-time data, they were able to see links between droughts and storms in parts of Africa and cholera outbreaks.
Stiglitz (using Commerce Department data) hasn't figured in gains in real estate, stocks, 401(k)s and other assets on American household balance sheets.
Using Bureau of Economic Analysis data, my associate Jonathan Robe calculated real growth rates in per capita income in the 50 states from 1980 through 2009.
Yet while store executives crowed about the crowds, early data suggested the real growth was happening online, as people using computers, tablets and mobile phones gobbled up Internet specials without the hassle of waiting outside stores.
Such data can also provide a real time window on how customers are using a web site.
Using predictive data modeling, contestants will examine three years of historical medical data from anonymized real-life people.
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This real-time data will be more powerful than what we currently obtain by using questionnaires and cognitive snapshots during stressful visits to the doctor's office.
Whereas the power of big data lies in using data to drive business outcomes, the power of mobility lies in speed and real time availability.
Using advanced computational techniques capable of analyzing streaming data from sensors across the grid in near real-time enable more dynamic monitoring of the entire power system across large geographic areas, and offers the potential to reach even higher levels of performance and cost-effectiveness through improved situational awareness.
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The real capacity-cost solution lies in using more sophisticated traffic management and pricing concepts than the data cap.
You know who they are, and have the benefit of using the potentially thousands of data points you have collected about them that are attached to their real world name and their home address.
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The ECPA allows some of a suspects data to be tracked in real time via electronic devices without a warrant, using only a court order from a judge that doesn't require the same level of evidence showing that a suspect merits surveillance.
It was a course where I could easily draw the line between academic theory and real-world applicability, where coin-flip decisions could be made with near certainty using data analysis.
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