Mid Staffordshire initially sought to explain away their higher mortality rates by blaming data deficiencies.

BBC: RAMI: Ropey And Muddled Information?

Customers believe a new generation of tools can give them the horsepower and intelligence to turn their current Big Data deficiencies into Big data opportunities: new sources of revenue, new ways of engaging with customers, new insights into opportunities as well as dead ends.

FORBES: The Deadly Cost Of Ignoring Big Data: $71.2 Million Per Year

And public cloud users had 25 percent more incidents related to audit deficiencies, data loss, data exposure, and unauthorized access than private cloud users.

FORBES: The Data Protection And Security Case For Private Clouds

If the question was posed in more general terms, such as running experiments with deficient methods, failing to report deficiencies or misrepresenting data, the straight average suggested that 46% of researchers had seen others get up to such shenanigans.

ECONOMIST: Scientists are not quite as honest as might be hoped

Nonetheless, Rems is returning very useful meteorological data, and scientists are learning to work around its deficiencies.

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The SILs taught the staff how to collect and analyze data on student performance and led discussions about strategies to address deficiencies.

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