Thankfully, there's software that helps guys on the ground filter through the mass of data.
Since the diagnosis in each case was already known, the resulting mass of data was analysed to see which genes were correlated with which forms of leukaemia.
Yet, in spite of this, and though the company's traditional business is combined with a fast-growing online money transfer business, the complexity does not lie with the sheer mass of data per se, he insists.
With growing unease surrounding the culture of mass personal data gathering, privacy watchdogs are worried the databases could become easy targets for government surveillance, identity theft and online scams, as well as marketing.
As the consumer Web exploded, the global mass of computer data went supernova.
Additionally, the critical mass of rich business profile data that LinkedIn has collected positions the company to stake a claim on all those ad dollars spent reaching business audiences.
Into this mass of data the producers have injected cross-references and geo-tags, films and sound clips, archival photographs and rare historical maps.
The Culture for Development Indicator Suite (CDIS) provides a timely response to these challenges, building on the current favourable political context, greater capacity for data collection, and the critical mass of field experiences from large-scale projects.
Studies like The Pub and the People (1943) and Weeping in the Cinema in 1950 (1995) are just two of the many studies based on Mass-Observation data.
Mobile Internet enables the mass-scale collection of such user context data.
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Some firms alleged to be carrying out mass-scale monitoring have been accused of selling the data to copyright holders for marketing purposes.
The data covers some of the years between the two mass shootings in the Denver area -- the 1999 one at Columbine High School that resulted in 13 deaths and more than 20 injuries before the shooters took their own lives, and July's mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora that killed 12 people and wounded 58.
These new data, combined with the most recent estimates of its mass, allowed the researchers to infer its chemical composition.
Our product, OVA1, would provide gynecologists and other physicians with a new piece of data that could help determine the likelihood that a woman's ovarian mass was benign or malignant.
Using Harps data, the astronomers also counted a total of 45 candidate planets with a mass below 30 Earth masses.
And it seemed very fitting to talk about big data, insight acceleration and real time analytics in the very place where mass and speed of light got combined for posterity, more than a century ago.
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The TechHerald points out that Sony has suffered seven security incidents in two months, including an original mass DDoS (distributed denial of service) by Anonymous last month and the devastating breach that compromised the data of more than 100 million account holders of the PlayStation Network and Sony Online Entertainment.
The search for Higgs got its biggest boost in December when researchers at the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, near Geneva, Switzerland, said that data from two independent experiments had narrowed the range of the would-be particle's likely mass to between 124 and 126 gigaelectronvolts, or GeV.
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