Sentences with phrase «of good data rather»

I firmly believe we serve funding agencies and taxpayers better by concentrating on analyses and archiving of good data rather than preservation of poor data.

Not exact matches

Though Kashkari begins with a broad attack on monetary rules, it quickly devolves into a focused attack on the Taylor Rule which he argues «effectively turn [s] monetary policy over to a computer, rather than continue to let Fed policy makers use their best judgment to consider a wide range of data and economic trends.»

Rather than simply interacting with consumers, these enterprise chatbots now have the potential to handle a variety of virtual assistant tasks, such as data entry, scheduling, as well as acting as in - house project management tools.

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.

But now that Obamacare is ensuring health care providers get paid for better outcomes rather than the number of visits a patient makes to the doctor, you can be sure hospitals will be using data to make sure they're delivering the best treatment they can.

She has spent the better part of a year conditioning investors to become watchers of data rather interpreters of Fed code.

It's better to track things as you go along in your day, rather than doing it all at the end of the day (some of the data will be less accurate).

Rather, it was an unethical action by a researcher, who gained access to the data legitimately but violated the terms of access by transferring it to third parties, as well as by Cambridge, which allegedly lied when, in 2015, it told Facebook it had deleted all copies of the data.

«Rather than contending with a myriad of one - off digital offerings that address only small portions of their health benefits and healthcare or fitness data, Engage brings together an individual's health and benefits into one location, empowering employees with information and support for better health and better health care decisions,» said Brian Ternan, president of commercial business at Anthem Blue Cross, in a statement.

Most are a function of noisy data rather than well - established phenomenon.

And crucially, it ought to be rather good at using its vast trove of data about people's lives to make more of the «real relationships» Zuckerberg is so infatuated by.

An event last Wednesday at the American Enterprise Institute showcased two new studies that use actual tax data from the IRS — rather than flawed survey data — to get a better idea of how retirees are doing financially.

Say, for example, rather than having a committed belief in the right to bear arms, you have identified yourself as a raging bull on some US tech stock, the fact such a bias could lead you to make mistakes when analysing fresh data on that business does not bode well for the success of your portfolio.

Rather, it has been one of the best performing fixed income sectors of the year and has outperformed other EM assets, according to data accessible via Bloomberg.

«Rather than contending with a myriad of one - off digital offerings that address only small portions of their health benefits and healthcare or fitness data, Engage brings together an individual's health and benefits into one location, empowering employees with information and support for better health and better health care decisions.»

We focus too often on becoming good processors and producers, manipulators of data, rather on than on becoming good human beings — critical minds, and noble hearts, capable of appreciation, engagement, and thought — and hungry for adventure and romance.

«The good life can not be lived without self - control, but it is better to control a restrictive and hostile emotion such as jealousy, rather than a generous and expansive emotion such as love» (p. 239) Russell, unlike the authors of Human Sexuality, does not assume that empirical data could ever show that a particular form of sexual activity is good or bad or the development of personhood.

Well done, Sunder, for not mentioning Labour's record on tax (up for the lower - paid, down for the rich), ID cards and 3,000 new crimes, increase in inequality, lost personal data, obsession with targets rather than actual service delivery — and in consequence the fact that in many marginal seats a couple of dozen Labour activists will be opposing a couple of hundred Tory volunteers...

Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, is well - known for inventing and spreading the concept of network neutrality, or net neutrality — the principle that all Internet service providers should treat Internet data equally rather than placing restrictions on its use.

Although many say the report is well done, the exercise largely depended on modeling of radiation doses rather than on direct measurements of population exposures, and the data were often sub-optimal.

«By looking at the full diet rather than individual nutrients, these data provide a foundation for studying how components of the diet might interact to provide benefit and better inform women's health and lifestyle choices,» said Jackson, who is national chair of the Women's Health Initiative steering committee.

The story may be apocryphal, but to Charles Wohlforth it carries a ring of truth: For the lowdown on climate in the Arctic, he argues, it often makes more sense to consult the plainspoken wisdom of the indigenous Alaskans rather than rely exclusively on abstruse data gathered by well - meaning but often clueless scientists.

The challenge won't be getting good data, but rather handling the vast quantities of it, project scientists reported last week at their first post-launch meeting in Victoria, Canada.

«We're hoping to impress upon the scientific community the notion that for those of us who might be interested in predicting an outcome of interest, possibly with rather complex or high dimensional data, we might gain by reconsidering the question as one of how to search for highly predictive variables (or variable sets) and using statistics that measure predictivity to help us identify those variables to then predict well,» Lo said.

Rather than dissect the individual segments, better to reflect on them as a whole: For what could become the final, definitive account of the trilogy's production, I'm pleased to report that the highs of the piece — a hilarious Sid Sheinberg anecdote, the brief but potent snippets of Eric Stoltz - as - Marty McFly footage, the presence of Claudia Wells — outweigh its lows — the occasional pointless tangent, the dearth of Stoltz footage, the absence of Elisabeth Shue — and that it does a decent job of balancing the greatest hits, as it were, with fresh data.

It seemed to fit our data pretty well and we have from this rather unique perspective of looking at class clowning and playfulness which hadn't been done before, which we have yet further evidence to support the whole idea that there is this Pygmalion effect, this self - fulfilling prophecy that occurs in the classrooms with teachers and their students.

Now that we have a national curriculum, I do wonder whether rather than relying so heavily on NAPLAN it would be better to look at making sure that we perhaps increase moderation and get more consistency around the assessments that we use within our schools to assess the outcomes of the curriculum that the school students are working on, and perhaps look at report card data and at strengthening some of those things.

Because Cisco Systems sees assessment as primarily learning - based rather than evaluative, it seeks to deliver better data — particularly through the scoring of complex tasks through its simulation program — that can be used quickly.

But why imply that black students would be better off not going to graduate school at all rather than a for - profit school if a lack of good data means we can't determine which is the better choice?

The data can be used in a variety of ways - as well as the questions provided, the students could draw box plots from the raw data (rather than use the ones provided) or comparative bar charts or scatter graphs and answer questions on those.

Students analyze their own travel data, as well as that of the whole class, and then explore strategies for reducing air pollution by choosing to ride their bike rather than drive, or by taking fewer trips.

Good self - assessment uses the data to inform judgements rather than relying heavily on opinion.The days of seeing self - assessment as a prescriptive tome that distracts from the day job are long gone.

If you've done the work of preparing a good WebQuest ahead of time (or selecting one made by someone else), you have a more gratifying day, by working with individuals and small groups as a coach rather than having to keep all those eyes on you as the only source of data in the room.

The good news — or rather what the detractors of the DC OSP program don't want you to know — is that we do possess data on these «more salient» longer - term effects.

But critics of the contracts say that most teachers who do not perform well are encouraged to leave rather than outright fired, distorting the data available to decision makers.

Whereas Tidd added he was «interested in the potential» of «comparative judgment» — in which schools focused on knowing who are the better writers or mathematicians and who are the weaker ones, and intervening, rather than «narrowing» teaching because of requirements to submit data.

Using longitudinal data, this report looks at teachers between 2007 - 2008 and 2012 - 2013, as well as their students and schools, to investigate the degree to which value - added scores capture the impact of teachers on student achievement gains rather than the influence of factors beyond the teachers» control.

But there's a lot of data that leans toward «worse» rather than «better.»

In analyzing these results, as well as other survey data, the nonprofit Center for American Progress (CAP) determined that teachers are more likely to support programs that rely on a variety of measures of teacher performance, rather than those that rely on only one measure (such as test scores).

This is a good option to enable if you don't want your battery to be eaten up during the day downloading megabytes of data, when you'd rather keep the charge for making calls, doing email, and browsing the web.

Well data collected by them from the number of searches conducted on their website makes its clear that people are searching more for the Kindle Fire HD rather than the iPad Mini.

Android 6.0 gave us better control over permissions, allowing you to control what parts of your data apps can access, rather than approve it by simply installing the app in the first place.

He's quoted saying, «Many well - known bestseller lists today add, remove, or re-rank books based on editorial considerations and customers have asked for a bestseller list that is based on reading engagement and sales data, rather than an opinion - based list of what books they should be paying attention to.»

3) If you are trying to smooth out fluctuations in inflation, wouldn't it be better to use the median or a trimmed mean, rather than ignore data, particularly data that minimizes the effect of inflation for households for which food and energy are a large portion of their budgets?

The primary value that I see in using historical data is as a means of better informing one's emotions, so that one is using emotions in an effective way rather than in a self - destructive way.

It is a better story to talk about how much money these endowments have lost rather than review or mention a slightly academic book (with lots of data and tables) that would have shielded investors from the bear markets.

There's a rather large # 443 to pay upfront, it's then # 25 / mth for the entire 24 - month contract which gets you unlimited minutes and texts as well as 4 GB of data.

When discussing various observers» attitudes towards some body of objective data, such as the data underlying the science of climate change, those who evaluate the data without undue ideological bias might better be described as «impartial» rather than as «objective».

It would be best to examine the overall appearance of the temperature data, rather than focus on linear trends.

For example, due to the lack of ocean data, secondary data is often used to infer what the ocean is doing — thus, the AMO analysis relies not on ocean temperature measurements, but rather on air pressure measurements as a proxy for ocean behavior — iffy at best.