Released today, The State of Modern Philanthropy dissects
millions of data points about online fundraising and the modern supporter's journey.
Not exact matches
Medical scientists, on the other hand, are crunching billions
of data points culled from
millions of patients
about genetic mutations that make people more vulnerable to diseases like diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
The simulation was visualized with a video made by combining
millions of points representing numerical
data about density, gravitational fields, and other properties
of the gases that make up the collapsing stars.
He currently has thousands
of data points feeding him info on his map, but in a 5G world, the network will support
about a
million sensors per square kilometre.
I have posted on RealClimate
about 4 times in the past 5 years regarding the potential thaw
of the methal hydrate deposits at the bottom
of the oceans.I stated in my posts on your website that I believe firmly that those deposits are in quite a good bit
of danger
of melting from climate change feedback mechanisms.On Nov 8th, ScienceDaily posted a huge new study on the PETM boundary 55
million years ago, and some key
data on how the methane at that
point may very well have melted and contributed to the massive climate shift.I am an amateur who reads in the new a lot
about climate change.I'd now like to say «I told you so!!!»
I made the
point then (and repeat it here) that although this doesn't «disprove» global warming (the globe has warmed and during this warming we have gone from
about half a
million cars to almost a billion, from
about 500 coal - fired power plants to
about 23,000 — I'll let you tell me
about the growth in the numbers
of airplanes, washing machines and
data centers...), it is a fairly straightforward argument against high sensitivity
of the atmosphere to increasing concentrations
of CO2.
It does so by providing factual
data from
millions of litigation records
about the behavior and performance
of law firms and individual lawyers — including
data points like win rates, cases with resolutions, time to injunction, etc., in specific areas
of law.
Analyzing
millions of data points, we consistently identified the most persuadable voters and the issues they cared
about.
Based on App Intelligence
data, our analysis
of currently active apps that have ranked in either the top free, paid, or grossing charts at some
point since their release shows that this number stands at approximately 187,000 or
about 8 percent
of the roughly 2.4
million apps on the App Store worldwide.
On its website it describes analysing
millions of data points to identify the most persuadable voters and the issues they cared
about and then sending them messages to «move them to action».
The company, which acquired the Facebook profiles
of 50
million people from an academic researcher, boasted in the past that it had 4,000 - 5,000
data points on just
about every American citizen.
«Analysing
millions of data points, we consistently identified the most persuadable voters and the issues they cared
about.
The important
point here is not that someone outside
of Facebook got the
data and used it to manipulate users; it is that — as Snowden said — «Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details
about the private lives
of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post.»