If there is a qualitative difference in Cambridge Analytica's work it is that they managed to associate thousands of
data points with millions of unique, identifiable individuals — what data analysts call a «person key» — providing a particularly deep read.
Compare the location of my 1979 - 97 line relative to
the data points with the chart Tamino posted.
And I reject the notion that you can get a trend to within tenths of a degree when you can't get your starting
data points with that precision.
For example, he doesn't realize that you need more than a few
data points with which to establish a trend and that for noisy data the range of uncertainty associated with a trend increases the fewer the number of points one uses in order to establish that trend.
Note that the original still shows the unsmoothed
data points with black dots, and the smooth with a black line.
I threw out
data points with negative PEG hurdles in the first analysis.
There are more
data points with slightly positive values.
Using a proprietary risk model, LendingPoint combines hundreds of
data points with algorithms to get a more complete financial story, often leading to approving those who might otherwise have been declined based on their credit score alone.
In addition to providing quantifiable
data points with the scans, this systematic approach to observation reduces possible distraction from nontypical behaviors.
Finally, combine those two
data points with a mapping project showing the flow of trading through the ancient world.
They conduct strict and thorough pre-screening based on 150 categorized
data points with nationwide networking.
Marketers can chose among 70 +
data points with Marketo, to sync at any cadence - or opt to populate blank fields only; compare emails against DiscoverOrg's known bounced email log; and more.
Our return on investment has increased at
every data point with the exception of 11 and 11.5 and, in all fairness, the sample size for those data points are very small and not necessarily the best indicator.
They can see which credit report had a hard inquiry from Chase and share
that data point with the rest of us.
Also, RGB at Duke would scold R.Gates for making the «schtick» «First, the climate now is not warmer than it was in the Holocene Optimum (do not make the mistake of conflating the high frequency, high resolution «2004 ″
data point with the smoothed low frequency, low resolution data in the curve — even the figure's caption warns against doing that — for the very good reason that in every 300 year smoothed upswing it is statistically certain that the upswing involved multidecadal intervals of temperatures much higher than the running mean.
Not exact matches
Job growth in for small businesses was on par
with that
data point's six - month average, according to the recent ADP Small - Business Jobs Report.
The
point is that businesses need to be more transparent and come clean
with customers about how their
data is used — and who it's getting handed off to.
Topol
pointed out that currently there's a ton of «information blocking» going on by health providers that don't» want to share
data with others for fear of losing their patients (i.e. business).
This is an extremely important
point, and contrasts
with the position of media pundits and investment advisors who consistently cite other
data as a rationale for being in the market at all times.
Simply by entering a competitor's website domain, users are presented
with an abundance of
data including total paid and organic keywords, estimated value of organic traffic, organic competitors, and virtually any other
data points you need to formulate a strategy.
Cases in
point: Multiple versions
with negligible feature differences are offered, you have to manually backup and reinstall
data to upgrade from Windows XP, and certain programs (including e-mail and calendar applications) must be downloaded separately from the OS.
Nonetheless, the startling high incidence of owners among Gen Y on Facebook seems like a strong
data point in support of this generation's deep identification
with start - up dreams.
Safety experts
point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise,
with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to
data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.
QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered
with The Weather Network to send location - based weather
data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and
points of interest supplied by Google.
Then, each eligible franchisor was scored based on more than 150
data points, and those
with the highest cumulative scores became the Franchise 500.
An analysis of the
data suggests that entrepreneurs and small businesses
with revenue under $ 9 million (the break - even
point) should take a hard look at outsourcing these key business functions.
The trend is consistent
with other surveys and
data points.
How can you connect issues and solutions
with reputable
data points?
When we launched a grassroots PR stunt in Central Park last year and asked people to share their dreams
with us, we discovered how to deliver our message to engage
with potential customers and also gathered behavioral
data points to help drive our future marketing decisions.
Banks and government
data point to a recovery in small business loans since the recession,
with loan figures nearly back to their 2008 levels.
Dozens of companies will need to work together to make sure you can travel from one
point in a city to another (safely and securely), feeding
data from the stoplights, handling the commerce between apps, and even communicating your location
with a future car traffic control center.
Martin arrived at that figure by using a wide range of
data points and Apple's 30 % revenue share
with developers.
It's questionable whether consumers and governments in other countries are familiar
with the finer
points of PIPEDA, which means even just the perception of overreaching
data - snooping capabilities could be enough to instill a chill.
«Major (cloud) infrastructure service providers are now also critical
points for systemic failure, and any
data breach or significant downtime can have a cascading effect impacting thousands of businesses,
with a great potential for economic impacts,» Goddjin observes.
The company provides outside academics
with access to its tools and
data points, which have been incorporated into independent peer - reviewed studies.
Qualitative measurement of this type of progress is difficult, but the goal should be a lasting cultural shift, not a
data point to share
with the world.
Making sure the right ones get to the right places has never been a trivial matter, but the decision to narrow forecasting brought
with it a gigantic leap in the amount of
data that had to be processed each day, from 100,000 to 3.5 million
data points --» demand forecasting units,» in supply chain speak.
As a marketer, I can't really do anything
with a
data point about the percentage of business travelers who are women — at least not anything that will differentiate from all of the rest of my competitors.
I have UX training, decades of experience, personal preferences, and career UX / UXD professionals on my team, and even
with all these seemingly valuable
data points, it only yields a UX hypothesis that must be validated
with user testing.
The first two
points are limited in the impact they demonstrate: The Temple study showed no decrease in DUI deaths on weekends, when the cost of UberX rides tends to rise
with demand - based pricing, while the
data from Seattle is only from that one city.
Other
data last week had painted a somewhat mixed view of the economy at the start of the year,
with inflationary pressures easing — possibly
pointing to softening activity — but better - than - expected import and export growth.
At this
point, pretty much any economic
data report is of interest to U.S. markets,
with the Federal Reserve watching closely for evidence of a sustained economic recovery before it finally implements its long - awaited interest rate hike.
Lars Schmidt, a former HR practitioner who now runs Amplify, an employer branding and search consultancy,
points out that while the field has evolved significantly over the past few decades — becoming more strategic and aligned
with business, as well as more automated and
data - driven — the practice of employee relations, or how workplace grievances are handled, has hardly changed.
Another
data point from AppFigures showed that 39 % of apps are paid,
with the most popular price being 99 cents.
After you have created your element of surprise - anything from a discovery, an experiment, research or an opinion — you must dissolve your findings gradually
with facts,
data, figures, charts and reference links that prove your
point.
Instead, Facebook's PR team and lower ranking leaders have led the company's defense by drawing technical distinctions between what happened and more common breaches by hackers, and by
pointing out that Facebook curtailed the amount of user
data it shared
with app makers in 2014.
# 5: Leadership In OldCo, Joe trusted his gut for most decisions but went in
with the salesmen's mentality that revenue was the most important
data point.
With the proper mobile application, freelancers only have to snap a photo of a business document to extract important
data points, like totals, dates and vendor names to be sent to accounting software.
UBS analyst Brent Thill
pointed out in a research note that the deal makes sense in that it extends Microsoft's application layer which has been looking for growth and also ties in nicely
with products such as the Delve organization analytics and
data visualization tool, Office 365 and Power BI.
The list came
with many surprising
data points: Muncie, Indiana, was named as the city
with the best access to financing, and Southern California (otherwise lauded as the «Silicon Beach») was said to have one of the least educated work forces in the U.S. — in the cities of Bell Gardens, Maywood, Coachella, Soledad, and Wasco.