Data-gathering on such a scale is quite a feat, but the calculation of benefits is even harder.
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The reassuring truth is, these rankings rely on the most rigorous data-gathering techniques and calibration processes known to man.
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It is not clear how much of this growth is real, and how much is due to more accurate data-gathering.
The fiberglass hull glides on the surface, with solar panels to power its electronics and sealed boxes to protect data-gathering instruments.
The scientists, from Norway and the UK, report their innovative data-gathering method in Geophysical Research Letters, published by the American Geophysical Union.
Working with a data-gathering division of Forbes called Forbes Insights, Deloitte sliced and diced its data in various ways, including by generation.
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The move comes amid widening scrutiny of the commercial data-gathering industry, which has been chronicled in The Wall Street Journal's "What They Know" series.
Forms remain the heart of what larger pen computers are used for today, and pen computers will always have a home in vertical data-gathering applications.
Organisers in London insist the expedition's data-gathering is still important for research - despite the setbacks - and describe reaching the Pole as "largely irrelevant".
Blogging pioneer Doc Searls has long argued that customers should shield their data and charge a price for it, turning the tables on marketing giants and their data-gathering web-crawlers.
FastPass is attached to a complicated data-gathering operation.
Nan Laird, a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, who was not involved with the study, says that she believes both the analysis and the data-gathering techniques used by Dr Roberts to be sound.
Data-gathering is central to intimacy building.
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So the hyper-individual trend is about people learning and applying new methods of choice, efficiency, self-monitoring, data tracking and information-gathering in their everyday lives.
They have yet to feel the full impact of the latest round of QE and the early signs of FLS (funding for lending scheme) require more quarter-data gathering.
The data companies maintain that gathering the prescription data is good for public health--for instance, it might show that in a poor area with a high asthma rate too few inhalers have been prescribed.
About 30 vehicles would be leased under the arrangement, with the company gathering data from on-board computers.
Google has maintained in its defense against the class action that it did nothing illegal by gathering data from open Wi-Fi networks.
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In early July, German data protection officials in Hamburg announced the start of legal action against Facebook, accusing it of gathering data belonging to non-Facebook members.
It mentioned the widespread criticism Google faced and the fines it had to pay after it inadvertently scooped up data from unprotected wi-fi networks while gathering information for its Street View service.
These chip cards, debit and credit cards and other forms of cashless payments are huge opportunities for data gathering, and indeed, behind-the-scenes marketing firms are scraping off Internet sites as much information on individual spending habits as they can.
Your consumers are using an ever widening array of devices and sources to support their data gathering habits and their almost addictive-like craving for the latest piece of information to help them complete a task, or be one up on their friends, associates or competition.
Gathering height-and-weight data in countries spread over two or more islands, with many remote villages, is challenging.
Data gathering and number crunching for the two-year study was done by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a big government contractor, with input from academics and oil companies like Shell, BP, Marathon Energy.
The photo is part of a 10-year project that is gathering mountains of data to help guide future research, scientists said.
Dr Clay's research builds on data that generations of Indiana's entomologists have been gathering at 17-year intervals for over a century.
Bloomberg executives rushed to reassure them, when it came out last week that Bloomberg reporters had been using data gleaned from subscriber terminals to get an edge in the competitive news-gathering business.
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Scotland Yard said the arrest - under Section 1 of the Computer Misuse Act 1990 - relates to a "suspected conspiracy" involving the gathering of data from stolen mobile phones.
Health Grades is among the first to make rating hospitals into a business, gathering data for every hospital and putting it all together in one easy-to-use site.
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