We for instance collect data with two or three ideas in mind in terms of what we want to examine and test with them.
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For instance, other data presented at the recent oncology meeting seem to indicate that Evista, an osteoporosis drug made by Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people ), may also prevent breast cancer.
Google, for instance, stores search data for 18 months after a search is performed.
For instance, by using data-driving marketing, retailers will learn which consumers value bonus reward points over price-matches.
Growth could be concentrated in smaller firms that are harder to invest in, for instance, or the data could be unreliable.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), for instance, stores search data for 18 months after a search is performed.
Environmentalists typically use the same sources, but, as Mr Lomborg lays bare, are much less scrupulous about setting short runs of data in their long-term context, for instance, or about quoting ranges of data, where that is appropriate, rather than whatever extreme of any given range best suits their case.
"What would be a bigger threat to Google is if regulators changed their stance about how it uses data, for instance telling it that it can no longer collect information about browsing habits, " he said.
For instance, his approach of examining data at a global level, while statistically sound, tends to mask local environmental trends.
Britain, for instance, recently passed the UK Data Protection Act, which fines companies for losing personal data related to its customers or employees.
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The new version of Business One is a multi-tenant version, which enables multiple customers to use the same instance of the application with their data stored separately.
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His data indicated, for instance, that people who bought cheap, generic automotive oil were much more likely to miss a credit-card payment than someone who got the expensive, name-brand stuff.
For instance, it doesn't use data gleaned from a person's Gmail account to target ads to that person elsewhere online.
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In every instance, such interviews provide a qualitative data point that anchors your thinking in a perspective that is important, if not imperative.
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However this provision is open to interpretation and may be understood to apply only to an entity which outsources the data processing in the first instance.
Signatories to the agreement, which will probably be presented for ratification this summer, must have laws on their books that allow, for instance, quick seizure of incriminating computer data and its distribution to authorities in other countries.
Putting the bulk of computing and storage in the data center has other perks for IT management: It creates a centralized location for software upgrades across an entire organization and puts a layer of network security between users and sensitive data--a lost thin client laptop, for instance, doesn't contain private information, and so doesn't pose a threat of causing a data breach.
The FIX spec, for instance, barely touches on how to secure data as it travels over the Internet.
Watch a 20-second ad, for instance, and you win three megs of data.
The chief executive of one business-to-business (B2B) company, for instance, hired market research firms to gather data about its promoters and detractors.
It will, for instance, require countries to set up national data-registration offices, so that individuals have easy access to information about them held on computers.
We hesitate to bring up anything to do with the ongoing debacle that is SPOT, but the guys over at Microsoft's most left-of-center division helped popularize the concept of "glanceable" information -- ubiquitous, high-demand data (weather reports, for instance) that can be gleaned quickly and with little or no user input.
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For instance, I like to take several years of data and look at quarterly summaries of my spending by category.
For instance, even though retail sales and industrial production data in July were higher than consensus expectations, the previous values were revised lower.
For instance, in a 2010 paper based on 2007 data, my Tax Policy Center colleague Ben Harris found that scaling back the MID would lower prices significantly.
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Much of the experimentation and innovation in banking has therefore taken place on its fringes: in facilitating payments, for instance, or in finding new ways of crunching data.
For instance, developers sometimes build apps that store user data (such as usernames and passwords) in ways that could be easily accessed through the security cracks Leviathan found.
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He says, for instance, that HANA can be used to analyze DNA data for cancer diagnosis.
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The data might be used to determine, for instance, whether a particular aisle is too dark or cumbersome or whether products are placed too or too low.
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