Sentences with phrase «years of data about»

A few years of data about a consumers is a better indicator for how they may act in the future than having only a few months of information.

These findings were based on 10 years of data about the diagnoses of new cancer cases and 21 years of data about cancer deaths.

This work gave the team more than 2,000 years of data about the frequency of cave flooding.

A team including Smithsonian marine biologists just released 25 years of data about the health of Caribbean coasts from the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity Program (CARICOMP).

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Social Capital CEO Chamath Palihapitiya speaks with CNBC's Kelly Evans at the Sohn Conference about Box being his best investment idea for the year, as well as the growth of big data and consumers» privacy rights.

Leightman Research Group data released Monday was roughly in line: Leightman estimated that the 13 top cable providers lost about 470,000 video customers in the second quarter, compared to a loss of 350,000 for the corresponding quarter last year.

Options Group's forecasts are based on public and proprietary data about revenue for the year's first nine months, and bonus expectations from a survey of about 3,000 Wall Street workers.

About half of Splunk's data analytics software sales derive from its security business, which has seen a growth spurt in recent years.

Last week, a study published by the Kauffman Foundation using census data from the past 50 years, revealed some eye - opening statistics about the number of immigrant - led companies in America.

The Sunday night championship, in which the Philadelphia Eagles toppled the New England Patriots 41 - 33, attracted an overnight rating of 47.4 on NBC, according to preliminary data from the network, down about 3 percent from last year.

We are planning a new corporate headquarters (about 20,000 square feet to start, expandable to 60,000) and another major data center build by the end of this year.

Samumed was founded in 2008 and came out of stealth mode about two years ago when it started presenting some of its data.

Here are the shows we know Amazon will release by the end of the year, including Metacritic data about how their previous seasons fared with critics and the public, if they are returning shows.

In aggregate, the data showed that 3 % of the companies on this year's Fortune 500 are fully transparent about the demographics of their workforce — and 72 % of the senior executives at those 16 companies were white men.

Last week, the Fortune data team revealed that we spent the months leading up to the launch of this year's Fortune 500 collecting information about the diversity and inclusion policies at each company on the list.

It realized a 26 percent decrease in burglaries in the period of about a year after this data was refined for the department's specific purposes, the Annenberg Media Center reported in 2012.

Though the failure rate for startups is often exaggerated, it's still relatively high: 20 percent of businesses fail within the first year, and about half of U.S. businesses fail within five years, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

«Very little of the conversation is about how much capital the company will be spending on data centres this year, or the composition of the typical advertiser spending money with the company.

These requests are a standard part of the process and ask the applicant for more information, but between January and November of last year, the U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services department issued about 40 percent more requests than in all of 2016, according to data from the department.

After navigating the company through its first substantial challenges (the U.S. authorities investigated Alibaba's accounting practices last year, concerned about data from its blockbuster annual sale), Tsai is making more positive headlines of late.

Poor performance and high fees drove money out of the money managers» funds by about $ 70 billion last year, the biggest drop since 2009, according to data tracker HFR.

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

And what we realized was that we had 20 years of data — about why customers buy, how they buy, what they read, how they read and why they're reading it — that could make a physical bookstore just a different and better place to discover books.

The new solar farm will provide power to Sierra Pacific Power Co.'s electric grid that serves Apple's data center and when completed will generate about hours 43.5 million kilowatt of clean energy a year, Apple said in a statement.

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.

«Friends don't let friends build data centers,» said Charles Phillips, chief executive officer of Infor, a business software maker, about two years ago.

The numbers tell the tale: According to our analysis of U.S. Census data, over the next 10 years, the 18 to 49 age segment is projected to grow by only 1 percent to about 137 million.

2016 will be a year of ignoring big mounds of data and focusing instead on simple insights about customers that help marketers to be more relevant to individuals and audiences.

«The extreme optimism about economic growth this year has cooled as the hard data have come in constructive but not exceptional,» wrote Michelle Meyer, Bank of America Merrill Lynch's US economist, and her colleagues in their research.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- The Pentagon has ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with key information about US war efforts in Afghanistan, accelerating a clampdown on data, such as the size of the Afghan military and police forces, that indicate how the 16 - year - old stalemated war is going.

So far this year, about 70 percent of China's outbound deals have been valued at $ 1 billion or less, according to Dealogic data.

ASH 2016 has been one of the most anticipated scientific conventions of the year, with companies like Novartis, Kite, and Juno presenting critical new data about a next - gen set of drugs that are being tested in numerous blood cancers.

Forecasters expected first - quarter earnings for the sector would be up about 69 percent from a year ago, the highest percentage gain of any S&P 500 sector, according to Thomson Reuters data.

The ride - hailing giant disclosed this year it had engaged in a cover - up: paying hackers $ 100,000 to keep quiet about a trove of customer data they stole.

The report points to September 2015 data released by the Government Accountability Office, which shows about 330,000 people, or roughly 11 % of the Americans who've taken out Parent Plus loans, have gone at least a year without making a payment.

Out of this year's Fortune 500 list, 400 companies share no data about the gender or ethnicity of their employees.

At about 50 cents a pop, the aforementioned VIX call options expiring in 13 days have only been this cheap on a couple of occasions since the start of 2011, and not in three years, according to data compiled by Macro Risk Advisors.

Census Bureau data shows the median value of homes in this neighborhood increased by about $ 30,000 per year from 2012 — 2016, for a total increase of $ 150,000 or 30 %.

About 30 % of «Black Friday» visits to stores actually took place before midnight on Thursday, as more retailers opened their doors earlier, compared to 18 % last year, according to data from shopkick, a retail tech company.

And let's not forget about Midway and O'Hare: More than 86 million passengers and 1.5 million tons of cargo passed through these airports combined in 2011, the latest year for which data are available.

Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has officially updated its data policy for the first time in years, clarifying a number of details about how it collects and uses its users» personal data.

He previously tried to talk to his 13 - year - old daughter about data privacy and social media — even providing examples of how much the tech companies know about people and what they can do with that information.

The latest CBO report on average federal taxes by income group was released in June 2016 and includes data for 1979 - 2013 on before - and after - tax income and taxes paid for each quintile, as well as for the top 1, 5, and 10 percent of households., [20][21] Because of the effort involved in preparing these analyses, CBO's annual updates tend to lag about two years behind the publication of the necessary SOI data.

When asked about the best way forward for Canada's economy in an Abacus Data public opinion survey last year, just one - third suggested Canada should prioritize promoting the use of Canada's oil and gas.

The social network is undergoing its worst crisis in its 14 - year history as it faces a torrent of criticism about its privacy practices and the way it handles user data.

The bigger issue is that Facebook had known about the data leak as early as two years ago, but did nothing to inform its users — because the violation was not a «breach» of Facebook's security protocols.

The announcement, made late Friday night, was designed to preempt reports published by The New York Times and The Guardian that would have exposed the fact that Cambridge Analytica had obtained information on 50 million Facebook users — and that Facebook had known about the improper availability of that user data for two years.

The DCMS committee's enquiry began last year as a probe into «fake news» but has snowballed in scope as the scale of concern around political disinformation has also mounted — including, most recently, fresh information being exposed by journalists about the scale of the misuse of Facebook data for political targeting purposes.

But according to a company executive, who asked not to be identified because the details of Mr. Koum's departure were confidential, Mr. Koum had grown increasingly concerned about Facebook's position on user data in recent years.

But reporting on Cambridge Analytica's use of Facebook data to influence elections for specific campaigns dates back for years — including details about how the data was being collected.