Sentences with phrase «data gleaned»

Facebook has a lot of cleaning up to do in the wake of #deletefacebook, declining user trust, and a falling stock price — and after the first step of reorganizing its privacy settings, Facebook is now ditching the partner categories that allowed third - party data companies to use data gleaned elsewhere to advertise on Facebook.

The Fitbit Windows 8 app is now available on the Windows Store and can be used to analyse the data gleaned from a Fitbit One or Fitbit Zip wireless activity or sleep tracker.

It has faced intense public criticism over the lax controls on data gleaned from its platform, and has prompted CEO Mark Zuckerberg to apologize and testify before Congress next week.

But Facebook said it learned in 2015 that Aleksandr Kogan, a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge, broke its data policies when he shared Facebook user data gleaned from his personality - prediction app with others including Cambridge Analytica.

Once again digital data gleaned from a mobile device was used in court in an attempt to convict an accused rapist and murderer.

The doll can answer questions built on data gleaned from previous conversations with the child, such as «what should I be when I grow up?».

For readers not familiar with what happened, Cambridge Analytica — a UK / US data analytics consultancy — allegedly used data gleaned from millions of Facebook accounts to develop profiles that were then used by the 2016 Trump election campaign.

Heather Douglas» post Metrics: Beyond the Billable Hour, suggests that law firms should measure more than just billable hours and could make use of the valuable data gleaned or already in their possession.

With sea levels predicted to rise almost 70 m if all the ice sheets were to melt, the scientists are hoping to take advantage of the data gleaned from these GPS stations to gain a better understanding of the sheet changes and anticipate the likely effects precipitated by further global climate change.

According to data gleaned via NASA's Ice Bridge aerial survey, the glacier is giving up 46 gigatons of water every year, or about a single Chesapeake Bay every two years.

The study also uses so - called «proxy» measurements, including data gleaned from coral reefs and tree rings, to extend large - scale surface climate conditions back to 900 AD.

Scientists rely on data gleaned from satellites for information on how our climate already has changed, and for clues on how it might change in the future.

Mr Lord said long - term data gleaned from gauges in Sydney Harbour suggested sea levels were rising at the rate of about 1 mm per year.

The data gleaned from those records, called the Hadley data set, show that Arctic sea ice has declined since at least the mid-1950s.

Data gleaned from 56 meteorological stations showed heat waves increasing from 1980 to 2009, a period marked by glacier retreats, steadily rising average temperature in the Indus delta and changes in temperature behaviour in summer and winter.

However many of their analyses appear to be based on data gleaned during the «satellite era» and thus reflect a very limited time series, especially when we compare it to the length of time that humans have walked the Earth.

Players used data gleaned from reprogramming the NFC tags on Lego Dimensions toys to uncover Supergirl months ago, along with information on Lego set lists found on the company's servers.

The data gleaned will help marketers and publishers make important decisions for advertisers and the reach of their particular publication.

Based on driving data gleaned from current Volt owners, it believes the added EV and gas range will allow most drivers to go between 1,000 - 1,500 total miles before having to fill up.

The ASBCS needs to provide a list of acceptable auditors using data gleaned from the audits to determine which auditors are currently providing acceptable levels of information.

Learning decisions centered on each student's individual needs, influenced by the data gleaned through technology in combination with the expertise and human touch of a teacher are — together — what will drive true education transformation.

apr (ArcView project) with data gleaned from a variety of sources and had designed related lesson plans for integration with North Carolina curriculum.

They object to using the data gleaned from it for high - stakes purposes, such as rewarding or punishing individual schools and teachers.

The data gleaned from NAPLAN plays a huge driving force in school agenda.

At a March 29 meeting, the students outlined their methodology and preliminary findings — based on data gleaned from building permits, real estate transactions, national change - of - address data, census statistics, and comprehensive field survey data of every property in Broadmoor — for residents, who asked frequent and detailed questions, reflecting that lives and livelihoods depend on connecting the data with the health and progress of the neighborhood.

The irony is acute: support for the reform agenda is driven by data gleaned from testing, even as testing has become the biggest threat to that agenda.

(Phys.org)-- The research team working with the LIGO project has proposed that the data gleaned from the discovery of gravity waves last year allows for calculating the likely level of cosmic background noise due to gravitational...

Along with the genomic data gleaned from the sequencing of complete human genomes, HLI will also be generating microbiome data for many of these individuals through its Biome Healthcare division, under the leadership of Karen Nelson, Ph.D..

Flight - test data gleaned during a Red Dragon mission would be available to NASA at a fraction of the cost and about a decade sooner than NASA could do it, Philip McAlister, director of NASA's Commercial Spaceflight Development Division in Washington, D.C., told a colloquium last week.

The data gleaned from the study is significant not just for virus control but also for mosquito biology.

The researchers analyzed data from a large dengue outbreak in Pakistan in 2013 and compared it to a transmission model they developed based on climate information and mobility data gleaned from call records.

Mitchell, a biomedical informaticist, and first author Colin Huber statistically analyzed data gleaned from 51 existing lab studies in mice genetically augmented with a human form of Alzheimer's.

Using data gleaned from the Hubble telescope, researchers have calculated the amount of ultraviolet (UV) radiation the planets receive from their star, a Hubble press release reports.

Ram and her collaborators — including Wenli Zhang, a UA doctoral student in management information systems, and researchers from the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation — created a model that was able to successfully predict approximately how many asthma sufferers would visit the emergency room at a large hospital in Dallas on a given day, based on an analysis of data gleaned from electronic medical records, air quality sensors and Twitter.

Jones says the data gleaned from the three physical tests was as conclusive and as informative as the lengthy recordings of muscle activity.

And geologist Björn Oddsson, a graduate researcher at the University of Iceland, reports that temperature data gleaned from infrared monitors will help scientists calculate the volcano's overall energy flow, which may yield insight into the dynamics that produced the eruption's unusually fine, far - reaching ash plume.

Now, a new analysis of data gleaned by Earth - orbiting x-ray telescopes in 2007 and 2016 reveals that the gas giant hosts a second aurora on its southern end.

All told, almost 75 publications have depended on data gleaned from the samples in these freezers.

In addition to responding to complaints from the public, the task force would employ a «certified database administrator» to identify lawbreakers by analyzing data gleaned from Airbnb and similar sites.

Last week, the New York Times and the Observer of London jointly reported that Cambridge Analytica had misused data gleaned from the profiles of tens of millions of Facebook users.

In a review of data gleaned from 2000 divorced couples covering almost 20 years, Professor Leopold's team uncovered a worrying fact about fathers.

Here's a look at CEO earnings in 2017 for other publicly traded Canadian utilities providers and power generation companies, according to data gleaned from company filings.

Twitter said it sold data to the Cambridge University academic who had separately shared user data he gleaned from Facebook with third parties including Cambridge Analytica.

Theoretically, these are meant to be local policy experiments, and the data gleaned from them should ostensibly inform public debate on health policy.

• Expanding upon data gleaned from the «black budget,» the NSA is found to be paying hundreds of millions of dollars each year to US companies for access to their networks.

For instance, the company will send subscribers who run a certain number of miles each week items that are also based on the data it gleans from more regular customers as well as on e-commerce data such as what is bought more frequently and gets top reviews.

It doesn't track specific employees, but it uses the data it gleans from teams to figure out what works best to help companies run more efficiently.

Not exact matches

And the ability of one particular app — the one that harvested the data ultimately obtained by Cambridge Analytica — to glean that data certainly didn't violate an agreement the company had with federal regulators, he said.

According to Jeff Cheal, director of personalization, campaign and analytics strategy for the global software company Episerver, companies are trying to glean as much data as possible to both give individual customers a more personalized experience, but also to better understand the customer base as a whole.

In the past, they used to glean intelligence from a relatively small subset of data overseen by specialists who were the only ones who could access and interpret the information.