However, I now see executives in nearly every type of company interested in using data to help make better decisions.
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Spoken language is in itself a serial data type: it must be consumed in time from front to back.
According to research by CEB, a member-based advisory firm, 90% of the organizations they surveyed had some type of data breach in the past year.
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The CDC has published data showing the dramatic increase of type 2 diabetes in the US. There are now many sections of the country where more than 10% of the adult population is diabetic, a dramatic increase from just 5 years earlier.
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The Watson-type arrays will populate in the Cloud in the thousands of huge buildings, data centers, already around the world, with more proliferating.
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In the posting Monday, Winkler drew a distinction between this type of data and "important" customer data, which he said has not been compromised.
The industry now has the capability, in both data and infrastructure, to handle finer, census-type data, letting advertisers go a step further and accurately, repeatedly, and consistently predict sales if different advertising is placed.
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They have data not only on the value, construction type and number of buildings in an area, and the likely value of their household goods, but also on the local topography and vegetation.
Some institutions keep the results of this type of survey locked away from the public in the "restricted access" portion of institutional data.
While they allow for doctors to collect valuable data, many of these devices were distributed without any type of encryption or defensive mechanisms in place.
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This data set, created by shoppers themselves using in-store scanners, records the type of goods bought by various income groups between 1994 and 2005, as well as the prices paid for them.
Foley is a big believer in statistical analysis, especially the type of in-depth, multivariable analysis that academics are beginning to crank out using the detailed ShotLink data that the Tour records for every shot in every tournament.
Now, investing in companies based on insider transactions is not a new strategy and empirical data on the success of this type of investing is uneven.
The information that AOL revealed is essentially the same type of data that the U.S. Department of Justice demanded from the company and its search competitor Google in March.
On Tuesday, Sun announced a new focus on using flash memory--the type of chips found in devices like iPods, USB thumb drives and some laptops--to store information in corporate data centers.
KDDI, a mobile and fixed line communications company in Japan, has developed extensive information about its customers through the data it collects including URLs visited, type of mobile device, purchase history and buying habits, gender and age group.
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The rankings reflect the number of U.S. utility-patents, which are the most common type of patents awarded for protecting intellectual property and technological innovation, received by companies around the world in 2010 based on data from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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