The numbers, measured by data outfit 7Digital, reflected the change in the rate of downloads in the 24 hours surrounding the Grammys as compared with the average of each of the seven previous days.
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Big Data is the result of practically everything in the world being monitored and measured, creating data faster than the available technologies can store, process or manage it.
Once these begin to kick in, Chan expects fundamentals, as measured by economic data, to begin beating expectations, propping up the markets.
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For HEC Paris Associate Dean, Bernard Garrette, the reality is that very little separates the top business schools as measured by the data used for the rankings.
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As measured by IRS data, the share of income accruing to the top 0.1% of U.S. families increased from 4.2% in 1945 to 12.3% by 2007 before falling to 9.2% due to the 2007-2009 recession.
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Chief SIZER: Well, for about the last 10 years, many police departments, especially large, urban police departments, have been collecting data on their traffic stops, and most departments, including my own, show disproportionate stops based on race when measured against census data.
Whether measured by fundraising data or by the members of Congress elected from the ZIP Codes where they live, the elite centers with the most clout in the culture are filled with people who are embarrassed to identify themselves as capitalists, and it shows in the cultural effect of their work.
That is based on individuals in their 60s who have been at the same company for more than 30 years, a somewhat different group than that measured by the Fed data.
That and the growth of the other businesses now reporting as individuals has made the top income shares measured by tax return data continue to appear to rise more rapidly since then.
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There is projected to be an 18X increase in data traffic as measured from 2010 to 2015.
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Here is why Klout matters: one day soon, everyone interacting online will be measured in one, massive data-driven popularity contest.
Nielsen took the first step a year and a half ago when it began including time-shifted viewing data, typically measured within three (termed "live plus three") or seven days ("live plus seven") of a program's original airing.
The Calculation: To quantify the data, I measured each of those four statistics (YTD return, number of up days, standard deviation, and maximum drawdown) against all other stocks and gave them a score from zero to 100.
In a 2010 study done at Kaiser Permanente reported in Health Affairs of 35, 423 people with diabetes, hypertension, or both, the use of secure patient-physician e-mail within a two-month period was associated with a statistically significant improvement in effectiveness of care as measured by the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS).
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The potential for injuries are measured using smaller dummies because IIHS data suggests that women are more likely than men to suffer serious head injuries in a side impact collision.
The Web channels will be measured by a more direct set of data, including the view counter displayed under every video on YouTube.
Perhaps the most impressive statistic produced by NASCAR (and measured by Mars, Inc. tracking data) is that Mars, Inc. receives an impressive 4-to-1 return on investment from their sponsorship in NASCAR.
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While girls around the world are not getting anywhere near the same investment in attention and education boys are, the phenomenon is not measured properly in many countries and empirical data is therefore scarce on the impact of women's education on societies.
Such conduct resulted in preferential treatment for those receiving the early data, even though such an advantage is measured in milliseconds.
Besides the Midwest and Rocky Mountain region, coastal states have also felt the heat of late: New Jersey, for instance, has experienced 16 straight months (not including data from June) in which average monthly temperatures measured above normal.
If there are problems with the warming as measured by weather stations on land, there are also more reliable data from ships and satellites.
The research was possible only because Brazil has good data on human development and on deforestation, which these days is measured by satellites.
But GMI's data were put to the test in an October 2009 study that measured the correlation of GMI's rankings to stock performance from mid-2003 to mid-2008.
Measured by real GDP per person a third of the 184 countries the IMF collects data for are poorer than they were in 2007.
In fact, trailing data suggests that active Fixed Income Managers have provided a better value proposition (measured by alpha generated relative to fee paid) than Large Cap Equity managers.
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Moreover, other data reviewed by Audit Analytics suggests that the severity of 2012 restatements, as measured by both the impact on net income and by the average number of issues per restatement, was generally less than in the period prior to 2008.
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Data from the Medical Group Management Association shows that physician productivity in these employed relationships, measured simply by RVUs, declines up to 25% compared with independent practices.
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CareerCast used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Census Bureau and trade associations, and measured five criteria: pay, outlook, work environment, stress and physical demands.
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Each ranking uses a different methodology and weights the use of different data to produce their league tables, so it is important for candidates to understand what is being measured.
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Researchers from SwayMarkets, which makes smartphone apps that monitor mobile signal quality and data usage, brought a handful of cell phones to Fenway Park for a Red Sox game and measured network performance.
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