Economists, historians, and stock market analysts have crunched copious amounts of data over the years to predict market movements, and the results hold promising news for investors.
The company has a high forecast for data consumption over the next few years, and is preparing its network appropriately.
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The International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts the volume of data will grow by 40 percent over the next seven years.
And it will do so very quickly: almost all of the companies surveyed expect the huge increases in data volume to continue following a surge in data volume over the past two years of 86%.
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Hewlett-Packard reduced direct greenhouse gas emissions - one of three types that are tracked - by 25% over the years, according to data the Palo Alto, Calif.
The data on capital gains rates over the last 40 years clearly shows that government revenues, job growth and prudent risk taking all increase when rates are lowered and kept that way.
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Consumption of bottled spirits in China has increased at a compound annual growth rate of 20 percent over the past five years, according to data from the National Statistics Bureau.
Data provided over just the last few years by the Grace satellite mission - used in this study - is giving researchers a closer view of regional variations across the territory.
Over the years, Boeing has probably accumulated more data on the fatigue life of airframes than any other plane-maker.
The data will be pored over by scientists for years, but it was immediately clear from the information at hand that the object had experienced significant change since the Deep Impact observations.
Advances in using seismic data have been dramatic over the last 25 years.
"We see tremendous opportunities and transformations over the next five years driven by Big Data centered around mobility, cloud, and the Internet of Things, and Samsung will be a significant part of this revolution, " said Sohn.
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On Tuesday afternoon I was reading the Sports Business Daily and stumbled upon this interesting set of data regarding the Nielsen Ratings for Sundays at the PGA Championship over the last 15 years.
The data reveals that, overall, the proportion of custodial sentences dropped over 10 years by 1% - from 4.8% in 2001, to 3.8%, in 2011.
Dave Rich has an interesting theory explaining the rapidly-growing interest and investment in big data and specifically, in predictive analytics, over the last few years.
The product-search site has grown rapidly over the past couple of years, comScore data show, but still lags behind Amazon and eBay in terms of the number of searches it handles.
He has over 30 years in the data storage industry with multiple engineering and management positions at high profile companies.
Microsoft figures it will expand its network of data centers 64-fold over the next few years to handle some 200 services, including Xbox online gaming, video and corporate software rented over the Web.
The data overlaying for targeting display ads towards users has repeatedly performed for advertisers over the years.
The occurrence of natural disasters over the last couple of years has increased awareness of the need for data protection and disaster recovery.
Also dragging Merck is the perception that the company has been having a harder time dealing with the FDA. Over the summer, the agency said Merck might need years of more data for a cholesterol drug, Cordaptive, that the company expected would be approved this year.
There is actually very little quantifiable data on earthquakes except over the last 100 or so years.
Internet data traffic is expected to triple over the next five years, according to Cisco Systems.
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The long-run data from the Congressional Budget Office shows that the federal tax burden over the next 70-plus years will jump to more than 30 percent of GDP.
Their current farm data has been crowdsourced over the past 2.5 years from Real Time Farms users and from their Food Warrior interns, who personally interview individual farmers.
Kolko dug into Census data to see how common it has been over the years for single young women (aged 25-34) with no children to own a single-family detached home.
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According to data from Morningstar and Lipper , over the last three years growth funds have lost an average of 12.4% a year, while value funds lost only 0.54% a year.
This one comes from a paper, delivered at a NBER conference last month, on the supply dynamics of the housing boom and bust. (A hat tip goes to Benjamin Keys.) The authors crunched census data to compile the compounded annual growth rates of the population, smoothed out over five years.
The beta value is calculated by comparing price movements of the security and the price movement of the representative index over the past 2 years of weekly data.
Meanwhile, data collected over eight years by Penn State University for the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection show mercury levels 47 percent higher in areas closer to power plants.
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