Who says data crunching has to come from someone on your payroll?
The new study «gives us a unique opportunity to improve our knowledge of the behavior of soil deposits during earthquakes, especially in urbanized areas,» write Leyton and colleagues,
who say the data could be used to help improve building designs and codes.
The announcement was made on Friday to preempt the publication this weekend of two blockbuster reports from The New York Times and The Guardian featuring claims from former Cambridge Analytica employee and whistleblower Christopher Wylie,
who says the data formed the foundation of the firm's election toolset.
Not exact matches
Using
data from more than 75,600 people
who said they'd been clinically diagnosed with depression and from more than 231,700 people
who reported no history of depression, Perlis and his team were able to identify 15 areas on our DNA that appear to be linked with Major Depressive Disorder.
«While the
data caps will limit what the big operators, such as France Télécom, Telefónica, Vodafone and T - Mobile, can charge, they will also limit what the smaller, niche players can make,»
said Mr. Strand,
who is based in Copenhagen.
«We had been offering our Depression Care service for a number of years, and we wanted to dig into our
data and measure our impact... look and see
who our end users were,»
says Barb Vader, Vice President, Clinical Services at Morneau Shepell, and the study's research lead.
Flipboard's head of ad product, Dave Huynh, explains how the new feature works: If an advertiser
says they are looking to appeal to readers
who are interested in big
data, for example, Flipboard can look into its interest graph and tell them that readers
who like that topic are also interested in other topics such as Amazon and the cloud.
Benenson,
who says he is a lead
data engineer at Kickstarter, barely skated past his funding goal, scraping by with just $ 176 extra dollars.
One company Plasticity currently works with has employees around the world, Moss
says, and its
data has revealed what he calls a «black hole»: a cohort of staff in a region that's suffered a significant economic downturn
who are struggling with morale.
As Diamond
says, «For every 1,000 men
who get regularly screened for prostate cancer, about 20 % of them will end up getting unneeded biopsies or even have their prostate unnecessarily removed because the
data is wrong.»
«Governing Council welcomes the recent strength in economic
data and wants to see more of it in order to be more confident that growth is on solid footing,»
said Carolyn Wilkins, the senior deputy governor,
who joined Poloz at the press conference.
Brian Wieser, a Pivotal Research analyst
who reviewed Nielsen digital consumption
data,
said Google properties, including YouTube and Waze, combined to account for 27.4 percent of all time spent on digital media — up 3 percentage points from the previous year.
«There's all kinds of evidence now that
says companies that use
data effectively have a competitive advantage over those
who don't,»
says Jan Kestle, founder and president of Environics Analytics.
Keith Parker, a strategist at UBS
who has a 3,300 target on the S&P 500 for 2018,
said only 35 - to - 45 percent of the tax plan is priced into the market, noting the index's recent gains have been mostly a product of better - than - expected economic
data and strong earnings.
It can tap its huge well of purchasing
data to target their marketing, reasoning that someone
who buys,
say, Alaskan black cod is more likely to splurge on other American delicacies.
Sheila Colclasure,
who heads
data ethics for Acxiom,
says we no longer live in an era of privacy but one of «ethical
data use.»
Paul Bartko, CEO of the MBC Group, in Mahwah, N.J., which specializes in electronic
data interchange and E-commerce, has had just about enough of the customer
who says, «Lower the price now and we promise a long - term, profitable relationship down the road.»
Cycling and running app Strava finds Glass well - suited for its users,
who want real - time
data on their workouts,
said David Lorsch, vice president of business development.
Greg Marcus, a cardiac electrophysiologist at UCSF
who was involved with the Cardiogram study,
said Apple benefits from the real - time access to raw
data from its heart rate sensor.
SAS's vice-president of marketing for the Americas, Cameron Dow,
says part of the problem also lies in the fact that Canadian universities aren't graduating nearly enough
data scientists, who ultimately will know how to deal with Big D
data scientists,
who ultimately will know how to deal with Big
DataData.
«Although this would require cyber criminals to target individual cards and wouldn't result in large scale breaches or theft like we have seen in the U.S., the payment technology used won't protect against retailers
who aren't storing payment card
data securely, and they will still need to be vigilant in protecting stored
data,» Candid Wüest, threat researcher at Symantec Security Response,
said.
Jeff Masters, a meteorologist at The Weather Company
who cofounded the weather -
data website Weather Underground, recommended evacuating only if local emergency experts
said to do so.
«If you're vulnerable and isolated, the more important that cell phone becomes for you,»
says Mark Latonero, a fellow at the
Data & Society Research Institute in New York,
who has studied technology and human trafficking.
Democratic preference in both polls was slightly above
data site 538's polling aggregator, which on Sunday showed that 48.5 % of voters
who said they would support a generic Democratic candidate in 2018, compared to 37.6 %
who preferred a generic Republican.
«Those
who rule
data will rule the entire world,» he
said.
Turning raw
data into a clear PowerPoint presentation or summarizing research findings in a Word document can be a huge timesaver when prepping for meetings,
says Rich Pearson, chief marketing officer at eLance.com, a jobs website for freelancers in Mountain View, Calif.,
who uses a virtual assistant himself.
The class action suit follows a separate, similar suit from a Florida man
who said he lost hundreds of dollars when his credit card
data was stolen after he visited a Wendy's.
A court or police officer could legally compel you to press your finger onto your smartphone to unlock it, but if your phone is locked with a passcode, no one can legally compel you to open it,
says William J. Cook, an attorney and partner at law firm Reed Smith in Chicago,
who specializes in information technology, privacy, and
data security.
100 customers
who bought Wetherspoon vouchers online have had their credit and debit card information stolen, but the company
says the
data accessed was «extremely limited» — only the last four digits of the card were visible.
Shilmover,
who says his company's sweetspot is small and mid-sized businesses, can integrate his software with a company's back - end
data within a day and sometimes within hours.
«The research
data is not necessarily consistent on this one, but women
who have significant depression — or have depression that is not responding well to medication — are sometimes not great candidates for the hormonal IUD,» Millheiser
said.
For Facebook users
who haven't used an app in three months or more, Zuckerberg
says the app developers will no longer have access to their
data.
«Amazing design that's built on deep
data is making a huge impact — whether it's from
who wish to create content for the next generation of storytelling as well as enterprises
who wish to deliver a great experience,» he
said.
Diane Bryant,
who was previously Intel's head of its
data center business, will become the chief operating officer of Google's cloud unit, the search giant
said Thursday.
It affects the whole credit reporting system in the United States because nobody can recover it, everyone uses the same
data,»
said Avivah Litan, a Gartner Inc analyst
who tracks identity theft and fraud.
Facebook engagement jumped this past quarter as more people turned to social media to discuss the polarizing U.S. election,
said Oppenheimer analyst Jason Helfstein,
who cited third - party
data.
The current and former chief executives of credit bureau Equifax, which disclosed in September that a
data breach affected as many as 145.5 million U.S. consumers,
said they did not know
who was responsible.
The union hasn't completed compiling aggregate
data, but a representative
said the devices were used at least twice last month at one large midtown hotel by room attendants
who were threatened by guests.
«People
who do a great job don't just get to stick around in companies forever,»
says Squire,
who is currently the non-executive chairman of Kognito, a U.K. - based
data management firm.
«Going forward, our intent is not to profit from Meta's
data and capabilities,» Meta CEO Sam Molyneux
said in a statement, «instead we aim to ensure they get to those
who need them most, across sectors and as quickly as possible, for the benefit of the world.»
Spam While it's hard to pin down the one person
who decided that junk mail should be called spam, internet entrepreneur and author Brad Templeton
says that the famous Monty Python viking spam sketch, which made the lunch meat synonymous with unrelenting repetition, was adopted by the users of very early chat rooms in the late 1980s to describe the process of overwhelming a computer with
data to crash it.
Budman
says he's spoken with a potential customer
who was going to build a new
data center to store petabytes of storage, but is considering Backblaze B2 instead because of the low cost.
In an email, a Tesla spokeswoman
said the company has no plans to change the name, and that
data it collects show drivers
who use Autopilot are safer than those
who don't.
«Hidden «backdoors» to our networks in routers, switches, and other network equipment can allow hostile foreign powers to inject viruses and other malware, steal Americans» private
data, spy on U.S. businesses, and more,»
said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai,
who introduced the proposal.
It's also worth repeating that, technically, the One plan isn't actually unlimited — T - Mobile
says customers
who use more
data than 97 % of other customers will «have their usage prioritized» and «may notice slower speeds during times and places of congestions.»
Hegarty came out swinging against what he views as an over-reliance on
data in the industry right now,
saying, «I've spent my life dealing with people
who've got all the
data in the world and yet they can't invent anything.»
NEW YORK, April 17 - Billionaire investor William Ackman,
who lost a proxy contest at Automatic
Data Processing last year,
said on Tuesday that he wants the human - resources technology company to succeed but
said he might be back with a fight if ADP fails to perform.
The current and former chief executives of credit bureau Equifax, which disclosed in September that a
data breach affected as many as 145.5 million U.S. consumers,
said they did not know
who was responsible for the attack.
«It represents two extremely polarized and separate networks that are not talking to each other,»
said Gilad Lotan, chief
data scientists at Betaworks,
who presented the graphic last week at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
David Madani of Capital Economics,
who has issued warnings about the overpriced Canadian market for years,
says more
data would help, but adds the nature of Tal's paper is equally worrying.