Good data doesn't mean you can stop caring.
And even good data doesn't extend far enough back into time to make good judgments possible.
Even so, the paucity of good data didn't prevent the panel from concluding that the programs are essential.
As Dean Emeritus Alfred Sommer, MD, MHS» 73, attests,
good data does not speak for itself.
[Response: Both CRU and GISS show that your theory of an underlying trend of 0.6 C / century is nonsense — just as
the BEST data does.
That covers both land and sea, not just land as
the BEST data does.
I've noticed that the text version of
the BEST data does not contain the original raw data values.
Of course the BEST data didn't appear until 2011, and it's for land (which is where over 99 % of humans live so it's more relevant to us than sea temperature), but if it's at all reliable it would appear to be showing that 0.2 ºC / decade is way too low by nearly a factor of two!
If this can not be refuted this is problematic — because adding bad data to
good data does not make the bad data better it makes the good data worse.
Not exact matches
However, he said he
did not know if this
data issue was correlated with the traffic dip experienced by publishers — although he said «we've heard our clients almost universally mention that traffic dip as
well.»
She crunched
data linking adolescent skills in 1972 and 1992 with adult outcomes, and found that in 1980, having both skills didn't correlate with
better success, whereas today the combination
does.
ENTREPRENEUR: What books
do you recommend entrepreneurs read to get a
better grasp on
data science?
You might think that the already scarce funding can be invested in something
better, but the truth is, in today's world where all types of communication,
data handling, customer support, selling and shopping for products and services are
done via the internet, IT support is invaluable.
«A fool with a tool, is still a fool — but in simply
doing a
better job of applying existing
data insights to critical business questions.
We don't know that having access to all that information is helpful yet, but many think that if we get
better at interpreting the
data, it could have huge effects on our health and help us catch disease sooner.
They're quite
good at it, especially when it comes to crunching
data quickly and then spitting out something useful for us to
do with it.
The
data presented last week, though not peer - reviewed, suggests they can
do that remarkably
well — with the algorithm, in the five - minute testing windows, detecting AFib with a 99.3 % rate of sensitivity and a 0.8 % rate of «false positives.»
And I think the reason for that is that CMOs maybe don't
do a
good job of socializing
data.
The key to beating your competition, according to Jeremy Fain, of pioneering neural network technology Cognitiv, is having
better data - not necessarily more of it, but the
data that your competitors
do not have.
Until we can connect our brains directly to this virtual miasma of
data that Google has
done such a
good job organizing, we're going to be reliant on companies to make hardware that acts as the intermediary.
While the Arkansas company says that de-identified
data remains that way, such a fuller picture of consumers can enable health care companies to
do a
better job treating, insuring, or marketing to them, it says.
They had
done their razor reconnaissance, and after that first trip to Eisfeld, Katz - Mayfield wooed Feintechnik, traveling regularly to Germany to meet with CEO Becker, whose direct German business style melded
well with Katz - Mayfield's
data - oriented tendencies.
She may
do 20 different things before she buys, so we look at all of those layers and process the
data in real time to determine who
best to engage, and at what moment someone might want help.
«The minimal access to
data your employee needs to get their job
done would be a
good start.»
Already, the company appears to have
done a
good job building excitement around the game — since Sunday, more than 48,000 tweets have been sent featuring the game's hashtag or the link to the live stream, according to Quid, an artificial intelligence
data - analytics company.
Apple would have
done better to focus on China's regional trends rather than develop the payment service for a global market, says Kitty Fok, managing director of the China group at the market research firm International
Data Corporation.
If these technology giants
did decide to move into finance, they would have a few major advantages over the banks:
better data, a superior user experience and immense customer loyalty.
But CEO John Donahoe and his crew have certainly
done it before, and ChannelAdvisor e-commerce
data suggest the marketplace business had a
good quarter.
On this year's list, robots are going places no human has ever been, «big
data» is
doing things that weathermen have never been able to master, carbon is being captured from waste and turned into fuel simultaneously, fiber optic cables are searching for oil, and future
well blowouts are being averted (maybe).
For example, in terms of summing up past and current
data on what is going on in the world, they generally
do a pretty
good job.
What if I told you that you don't have to imagine, that tapping into critical
data that could change the way your company operates for the
better was as simple as a web search and costs you nothing?
Doing far more than acting as a
data guru, the chief marketing technologist must also define strategies and set priorities for leveraging opportunities within the digital economy, as
well as survey, assess and put in place emerging technologies crucial for growth.
«We
do not have enough
data on the surface, e.g. most interesting place regarding geology and composition to know where to put down a lander to return the
best science,» Clark told Business Insider in an email.
The federal government is hardly a model of
best practices; many federal agencies don't report their
data, either — even though they're legally required to
do so.
«If you don't use the
data well then that's not smart.»
We could have probably
done very
well if we had acted on our
data, but we didn't.
Our partner physicians use
data and analytics to
do exactly what you described, which is to determine the
best protocol for patient care — disease and tumor - specific — so they don't over-treat or waste resources.
Rommeti
did not mention Facebook (fb) by name when discussing being a
good «
data steward.»
A recent Abacus
Data poll,
done on behalf of Public Response — an agency that works with labour — indicates that a majority of Canadians, 61 %, believe unions
do a
good job of protecting their members» jobs.
Further, Gotlieb said marketers and retailers need to
do a
better job of explaining to the public how the consumers themselves benefit when companies use their
data in targeted advertising.
The company has a new privacy page designed to give users a
better idea of the
data it's collecting and what it's
doing with it.
But only 46 % believe unions
do a
good job of improving their members» lives as
well as the lives of others — in spite of
data that proves the contrary time and time again.
The
best way to
do that is to evaluate your own
data and see how your customers are finding you.
«The
best think you can
do to make your your
data remains safe is to apply updates from your operating system vendor as soon as they become available,» Krzanich said.
If your
data shows that more experienced buyers respond
best to long - form content, don't serve them a two - minute video.
After all, there are valuable insights to be gleaned from the information HR departments gather, and sophisticated
data management and analytics tools can
do that
better than traditional HR experts.
Pandey insisted that Nutanix has a
better chance of becoming profitable than Hortonworks because it sells a hardware product and doesn't rely on consulting or services for revenue growth like the
data crunching company.
Feedback is big
data gold, but many companies don't welcome it as
well as they should or, if they
do, they let it collect dust.
And since the ranking draws on 2014
data, it doesn't account for last year's precipitous drop in oil prices, which may in future drag down compensation for energy sector bosses, who are
well - represented on this list.
I don't think we're there yet in terms of getting it down to the one - to - one marketing level, but at least leveraging it for insights that can provide
better direction is the fact that, payments companies have essentially customer behavior
data of purchases before and after someone leaves your store.