It is maddeningly difficult to track down an exact figure for the pre-industrial global temperature, partially because of a lack
of precise data, partially because of politics, and partially because of the impenetrability of scientific writing.
Bruce Lanphear, a professor for Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, said the lack
of precise data presents «a huge problem.»
Science also, practically, requires a culture with a written language for the easy recording and sharing of large amounts
of precise data.
Not exact matches
In particular, no one seems to have
precise data on the size
of the private, unregulated mortgage space.
Google can provide approximations
of this
data with the types
of keywords the users might enter during a search, but Facebook is more likely to have the
precise details.
Email has become the predominant method
of exchanging large files and sensitive
data, unfortunately, many employees are unaware
of how to secure important documents when emailing them to establish
precise, written policies and procedures for all employees to follow.
From
data enrichment to happy customer monitoring and
precise lead scoring, the benefits
of automating your marketing workflow are both wide and deep.
Because
of increasingly
precise location tracking, your phone can collect records
of where you go, and the services you use can apply that
data to help companies target you with ads.
They can aggregate search
data and social media
data to paint incredibly
precise pictures
of who people are and what they want to buy.
The Gaia
data provides an unprecedented level
of detailed information about the stars in our galaxy, with
precise distance, brightness, color, and motion indicators for more than a billion stars.
Recent years have seen the rise
of firms such as Sportvision, which sell
data - collecting cameras that track movements on the field imperceptible to the human eye, such as the
precise path and velocity
of a baseball pitch.
Along with virtually every major retail and restaurant chain, Starbucks relies on software that choreographs workers in
precise, intricate ballets, using sales patterns and other
data to determine which
of its 130,000 baristas are needed in its thousands
of locations and exactly when.
Although there is not enough official
data to come up with a
precise figure for bad loans, other analysts have come up with estimates
of around $ 5 trillion.
Powered by the industry's largest network
of real - time shipment location
data, FourKites uses connections to more than four million GPS devices and a proprietary algorithm to provide
precise arrival time predictions and real - time recommendations.
This type
of triangulation gives you a very
precise and accurate location
data.
All
of the
data in the world on valuations, fundamentals, technicals, geopolitical events and sentiment can't help you predict the
precise moment other investors will collectively decide it's time to panic.
As William Poole
of the St. Louis Fed noted over the weekend, «It is too early to pick a
precise date for the recession trough, but there is a bottoming out feel to the
data.»
As stated by economists Jon Faust and Jonathan H. Wright in a 2009 paper, «by mirroring key elements
of the
data construction machinery
of the Bureau
of Economic Analysis, the Fed staff forms a relatively
precise estimate
of what BEA will announce for the previous quarter's GDP even before it is announced.»
Leverage granular fund
data to pick your own
precise peer group and present a benchmark that truly highlights the value
of your strategy.
The bottom line for our purposes is that on a large, universal scale, even a proper application
of a Golden Mean interpretation against a triangular pattern is at best using abstract past
data to predict a
precise and concrete future movement.
The trove
of documents shared publicly by the company's former research director, Christopher Wylie, illustrates that granular personal
data on each
of us can be used to create
precise messages to any individual voter, then delivered to us through the online ecosystem over Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter and other free services.
The latter is merely the external occasion which provokes a more
precise examination
of the
data that derive from theology's own sources and methods.
Psychology
of learning; social analysis
of the societies in which students will work; statistical methods applied to the economic facts
of ministers» salaries and the cost
of tuition, and the like; and many other relatively
precise procedures applied to limited
data can give guidance to perplexed administrators that no amount
of hard thought about the large question
of man's life before God will yield.
He knows that those
data put limits on what
precise overall final state results when he completes the process
of concrescence.
The historical timing
of this mistaken notion that the selected
data («abstractions»)
of physical science exhausted the concrete could hardly have been worse, coming as it did just when the industrial revolution and new political revolutions should have been based on the most
precise attention to relevant value.
Gore is calm and
precise — if anything, he is conservative in his use
of the
data.
Spalatin thought he had better be in possession
of the
precise details
of Luther's actual pedigree, and Luther obliged with brief biographical
data, but was upset again: «This does not frighten me at all, but it blows up the sails
of my heart with an incredible wind.»
The macronutrients in the
data below are also different from the commercial coconut flour we buy, showing the difficulty
of generating some
precise value.
Sub-monitoring
of electricity using CT (Current Transducer) devices connected to
data - loggers provides accurate
data on all electricity usage, while water meters log every litre
of water at 30 second intervals, providing highly
precise readings.
It stores quite a bit
of data, 12 consecutive results to be
precise, which makes monitoring your baby's temperature over time that much easier.
It is when we look, as Chris Bragg did in Crain's recently, at the
precise political history
of the members
of the Progressive Caucus, that we understand that the Caucus represents the high water mark
of the Working Families Party, circa 2009, before the implosion
of Data and Field Services.
With the general lack
of precise, granular audience measurement
data, media buying brands, agencies, and media outlets hedge their bets when it comes to advertising spend.
Neither state nor county officials can provide a
precise number
of children who are diagnosed with blood lead levels
of 5 to 9 micrograms because the state's
data collection system is not set up to track and and analyze the cases
of children whose lead levels fall in the range.
«Those
data, taken as a whole, may provide very
precise information on the private lives
of the persons whose
data are retained, such as the habits
of everyday life, permanent or temporary places
of residence, daily or other movements, activities carried out, social relationships and the social environments frequented.»
Many «discoveries»
of background radiation evaporated as
data became more
precise, and the ones that endured faced a hard slog to prove themselves.
Seen at left as a reddish thumbprint on the top
of the inner tube, they are carefully sculpted in a
precise pattern to encode
data as accurately as possible.
Using
data from 16 ice cores collected from widely spaced locations around the Antarctic continent, including the South Pole, a group led by Joe McConnell
of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nevada, created the most accurate and
precise reconstruction to date
of lead pollution over Earth's southernmost continent.
This way the researchers obtain
data for each type
of mutation as well as
precise mutation frequencies at any position
of the RNA.
The experiment will supply us with a lot
of new highly
precise data which may also lead to the discovery
of new particles,» said Sfienti.
«The laser scanning
data collected from selected points does give significantly more
precise results than the satellite radar,» notes Christian Berger, co-author
of the study and head
of the research project on which Victor Odipo's doctoral thesis is based.
LiDAR is a method
of mapping from the sky: An airplane - mounted device sends a constant pulse
of laser light across a swath
of terrain;
precise measurements
of how long it takes the emitted breams to bounce off surfaces are taken and translated into topographic
data.
Cosmologist Douglas Scott
of the University
of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, who was not involved in the study, calls it an «eminently sensible analysis», but agrees with Gordon that more
precise data is needed to claim discovery.
They say they need
precise data on the prevalence and onset
of medical conditions, as well as from air and water sampling, to properly assess the hazards
of drilling.
Instruments are now so
precise that radar observations can spot a single bee at about 30 miles away, and scientists can combine thermal imaging cameras, acoustic monitoring devices and small portable radars with weather radar
data to get a complete picture
of a region's ecology.
Auditory interfaces also prompt a rethink about how we investigate
data and communicate those findings, setting aside the
precise and discrete nature
of visual presentation in favour
of complex, overlapping forms.
The role
of the Arctic ctenophore in the Arctic and Baltic ecosystems has not been fully understood due to the limited availability
of precise frequency and research
data.
As the Canadian government scientists note in the Fisheries Oceanography paper: «The 2010 phenomenal run... may forever remain an enigma due to the lack
of precise ecological and chemical
data.»
Those studies, which used less
precise genetic tests, showed differences between females at beaches thousands
of miles apart but provided no
data on males.
According to the authors, whose interpretations
of these
data again were inspired by evolutionary logic: «Schadenfreude laughter might therefore represent a
precise (and socially tolerated) tool to dominate the listener without concurrently segregating him from group context.»
Among their goals for this system are: a higher density electrode array to allow for more
precise targeting on neurons, new recording circuits that vastly increase the volume
of data captured, and a new wireless power and telemetry technology that allows for real - time
data transmission from the brain.