It further claims
it used alternative data sources and data sets to build its models.
Not exact matches
Dr. Sean Khozin, one of the authors on the study and a senior medical officer at the FDA, told Business Insider that Flatiron is just one of many companies the agency is working with to check out how
alternative sources of
data can be
used to better inform the agency.
Babineau and cofounder Lillian Chou started digging into all of the
alternative data sources hedge fund managers
use, from LinkedIn scrapes to forecast layoffs or watching Google trends.
A news report says both have made progress to replace Oracle software, which has been widely
used in their own
data centers, with cheaper open
source alternatives.
Because school districts
using CEP no longer collect meal applications at all schools, states have developed
alternative data sources for assessing the poverty level of schools.
Here, satellite
data on nighttime light emissions can be
used as an
alternative data source.
Using data collected primarily by the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, scientists have compared the environmental impacts of conventional meat production with those of
alternative sources of food.
LEAs may
use for this purpose either the same
source of
data used to select and allocate funds among public schools (i.e., usually free or free and reduced - price school lunch
data) or one of a specified range of
alternatives, such as
data from an income survey of private school families, private school scholarship applications, or estimates based on the assumption that the percentage of students attending a private school who are from low - income families is the same as that for public school students who reside in the same geographic area.
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USED's March 2015 revised policy guidance lists several
alternative sources of
data that states and LEAs may
use for selection of Title I schools and allocating funds among them.
These factors include the congruence of
sources of evidence with the prior beliefs of decision - makers, the content knowledge of individuals
using data to advocate
alternative views, organizational structures that inhibit or promote shared understanding of instructional matters, resource constraints, and the micropolitics of authority and power in decision - making processes.
For J.D. Byrider, a
used - car sales and finance company, Equifax developed a risk - assessment model that
uses traditional credit
data augmented with
alternative data sources such as telecom and utility information.
Today, FICO is also responsibly
using new,
alternative data sources outside of the credit bureaus to expand access to credit for more and more Americans.
EAR4CS URCLIM (2017 - 2020) will combine high resolution urban climate modelling, with open
source land
use and urban morphology
data, and with urban land
use and morphology simulation modelling, so as to better explore
alternative future urban climates in
alternative future urban environments.
ERA4CS URCLIM (Urban climate services, 2017 - 2020) will combine high resolution urban climate modelling, with open
source land
use and urban morphology
data, and with urban land
use and morphology simulation modelling, so as to better explore
alternative future urban climates in
alternative future urban environments.
EU safety standards would therefore have to be met
using data from
alternative sources.
(f) Archiving is part of a larger movement to increase access to knowledge that also includes
alternative forms of open access publishing for journals and conference papers, involving dedicated open access publishers (e.g. BMC), university libraries (e.g. UBC http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/) or groups
using open
source software (e.g. DpubS), while at the same time, this new spirit of openness is contributing to open
data (e.g., Dataverse Network) and open notebook science (e.g. Useful Chem) initiatives.
«For clients who are
using third - party segments, we've given guidance to teams to scenario plan now to identify suitable
alternatives within Facebook and / or to seek out inventory
sources where top performing third - party
data can still be leveraged,» the unnamed head of social said.