Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach We have gotten three more
years of data for the CERES dataset, which is good, more data is always welcome.
For non-U.S. developed markets, 39 years of data is available, and there are 25
years of data for emerging markets.
Mark Hulbert wrote: «Let me hasten to add that, with 25
years of data for just 13 letters, generalizations must be tentative at best.
It takes more than 20 or 30
years of data for us to build up a high degree of confidence in our ability to spot the critical risks.
[9] The highest correlation coefficients were for math and reading teachers in Houston — .59 for math and.50 for reading — where value - added was calculated by pooling up to eight
years of data for a teacher.
The change data for growth measurement will likely require 3 -
years of data for most indicators, and the CDE acknowledged at the July SBE meeting they are not planning to provide 2 - year Smarter Balanced... Read More
Ed - Data presents the test results as trend graphs with multiple
years of data for both the English language arts / literacy and mathematics tests.
Researchers at Education Datalab analysed up to three
years of data for 149 schools.
The study drew on five
years of data for the 9,595 students (28 percent were current or former EL) who began Grade 9 in 2008 — 09 in six districts in Washington state.
There are important policy questions in the use of multiple years of data — but on the legal front it is not clear from ESSA's language whether states have flexibility in using multiple
years of data for either technical or policy reasons.
The study, conducted by Stanford University researcher Caroline M. Hoxby and her co-authors Sonali Mararka and Jenny Kang, is based on eight
years of data for students applying to the city's growing number of charter schools.
In last year's fall issue of Education Next Columbia Business School researchers Jonah Rockoff and Benjamin Lockwood reported their findings from a review of almost ten
years of data for Gotham school children who were in grades 3 though 8, in all different school grade configurations, and concluded rather ominously:
This directly affects the determination of the oc... ▽ More The Kepler mission has to date found almost 6,000 planetary transit - like signals, utilizing three
years of data for over 170,000 stars at extremely high photometric precision.
The social and psychological implications of this process require more
years of data for thorough study and examination.
Status is based on the most recent
year of data for that indicator.
Because there is only one
year of data for chronic absenteeism and college / career readiness, those indicators won't be assigned a color and used for accountability purposes until fall 2018.
I've shown 1987, the last
year of data for Hansen et al 1988.
Not exact matches
The number
of active Corporate VCs — which serve as the investment arms
of giant firms and include Intel Capital, Bloomberg Beta and GE Ventures — has grown by 15.5 percent
year - over-
year between 2011 and 2015, compared to a growth rate
of 12.8 percent overall
for VCs
of any type in the same period, according to
data from CB Insights.
A study by Forbes Insights and Turn revealed that more than 70 percent
of marketing executives expect to rely more and more on
data for decision - making within the next three
years.
Similar
data for China was not available, but the country's consumption has been growing, Last
year, Chinese consumers reportedly spent 840 billion Chinese yuan (just under $ 140 billion) in retail and catering services over the week - long holiday, an increase
of 11.4 percent from 2016.
Recent economic
data are, «encouraging,» including indicators
of business investment, an important element
of economic growth that has been depressed
for years.
After reaching a peak in 2000 at 634,000, the annual number
of new firms fell to 505,000 in 2010, the last
year for which BLS has
data.
If a Desjardins customer's driving
data shows they are a less risky driver than most (driving less than 15,000 km per
year,
for example, or driving primarily between 5 a.m. and 10 p.m.) they can qualify
for a discount on their insurance policy
of up to 25 %.
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.
New vehicle sales in Western Australia registered a slight increase in March compared with the same month last
year, while sales
for the 12 months to March were up 5.3 per cent on the prior
year, according to the latest
data from the Federal Chamber
of Automotive Industries.
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.
Doubling
of the Treasury Board's budget
for open
data and open government initiatives, providing an additional $ 11.5 million over five
years for these activities.
«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.
The New York Times,
for example, says ebook sales fell by 10 % in the first five months
of this
year, according to the Association
of American Publishers, which collects
data from nearly 1,200 publishers.
According to
data from the National Center
for Health Statistics (NCHS), a branch
of the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, the life expectancy
for a baby born in 2016 fell to 78.6
years, which is a small but statistically significant decline
of 0.1 percent.
While IBM has been selling Watson
data crunching
for several
years, Kenny said that many
of those deals have involved IBM's consulting teams helping businesses use the company's machine learning services.
The lack
of data surrounding Canada's housing market has been a problem
for years, and it's only grown more pressing as real estate markets in B.C. and Ontario have turned red hot.
And then all
of the important official federal government economic
data gets revised, often significantly revised and often revised over and over again
for several
years thereafter.
Programmers have, rather, fed the computer a learning algorithm, exposed it to terabytes
of data — hundreds
of thousands
of images or
years» worth
of speech samples — to train it, and have then allowed the computer to figure out
for itself how to recognize the desired objects, words, or sentences.
But despite the Trump administration's call
for urgency,
data from the Customs and Border Protection agency actually show that arrests
for illegal border crossing has been falling
for years and now hovers near the bottom
of a 40 -
year low.
In fact, organizations have already been effectively collecting and sharing
data for years with use
of various systems
of record, particularly in the area
of sales, where CRM systems provide a tremendous value through the shared
data allowing the company to recognize sales opportunities that otherwise would have been missed.
Car dealers in Western Australia will be hoping
for a pickup this
year, after the release
of data showing a 7.9 per cent fall in new car sales in 2015 in WA, while the rest
of the nation reported its best
year on record.
The most exciting technologies
of the next few
years are hungry
for data — more
of it, and faster than ever.
Outside
of the 1992 - 97 period, the employment rate
for this group has been at lows not seen in the nearly 40
years of data that is available:
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.
The
data are pretty compelling: Harvard professor and researcher Joel Goh has estimated that workplace stress accounts
for up to $ 190 billion in healthcare costs every
year in the U.S. - that's nearly 8 percent
of all corporate healthcare spending.
However, Diego May, the Argentine co-founder
of Junar, an open
data platform
for businesses, says if you promote yourself well and land funding, you will get attention from good engineers — so long as you can provide a job
for at least a
year.
For $ 120 and a two -
year contract, Kansas residents can get one gigabit upload and download speed, no
data caps, a full lineup
of TV channels, a Nexus 7 tablet, one terabyte
of online Google Drive storage and all the necessary hardware to make the service work.
• Expanding upon
data gleaned from the «black budget,» the NSA is found to be paying hundreds
of millions
of dollars each
year to US companies
for access to their networks.
According to an analysis
of 2010
data by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, the price tag was $ 669 million in direct hospital costs
for just that
year and $ 174 billion in larger societal costs, which includes disability, effects on employment, and other longer - term factors.
In a sign
of just how strong demand
for eggs is this
year, separate
data from the US Department
of Agriculture showed there were 385.6 million laying hens in the US at the start
of March, the highest over a comparable period in at least a decade.
In essence, rule - based online trading platforms provide tools and tutorials
for people to write algorithms on Web browsers and test their models with
years of historic
data.
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.
Equifax's breach follows rival Experian Plc's breach two
years ago that exposed sensitive personal
data of some 15 million people who applied
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