Not exact matches
And there's the rub: As easy as it may be to talk big
about big
data, the actual doing is a slog — plumbing and janitorial tasks that take a lot of effort and
yield marginal benefits.
NEW YORK, Jan 18 - U.S. fund investors pulled $ 3.1 billion from high -
yield «junk» bonds during the latest week, Lipper
data showed on Thursday, offering new warning signs
about risk appetite despite global markets» continuing triumph.
Treasury
yields resume a steady climb higher on Wednesday as fretting
about the threat of an economically disruptive trade war between the U.S. and China subsided, and takes a back seat to the concerns
about rising interest rates and coming labor - market
data, which could inform the Federal Reserve's policy agenda.
The $ 1.2 trillion market for U.S. junk bonds
yields about 6.6 percent, double what's offered by higher - rated company debt, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index
data.
Buyer personas are built on that
data we just talked
about — the common traits that
yield the best customers.
Then late in the week, stocks rallied on some strong earnings reports and economic
data, with a better - than - expected initial reading on first - quarter GDP pushing bond -
yield lower on Friday and easing some earlier week concerns
about inflation.
I check overall market
data once per month for
about 20 minutes, as I do like to have a general idea of median P / E ratios, P / B ratios, dividend
yields, profit margins, and a few other general metrics.
Based on the
data below, for each 1 % increase in the 10 - year U.S. Treasury
yield, STORE capital's dividend
yield can be expected to rise by
about 1.47 %, meaning the share price would be expected to decline (perhaps somewhat meaningfully) over the short - term.
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.
Structural facts (e.g.,
about genetics or cosmology) do not disclose their own meaning, and no amount of scientific combination of the
data in one area of existence will directly
yield a vision of the whole by means of which we can begin to make sense out of all existence.
While the Cassini spacecraft is gone, its enormous collection of
data about Saturn — the giant planet, its magnetosphere, rings and moons — will continue to
yield new discoveries for decades to come.
«It does
yield great
data, but it also gets lots of people looking into and learning
about the natural world.»
These missions were aimed at gathering
data and answering questions
about the red planet and its past that may
yield further insight into Earth's past, present, and future.
The sequenced genome of a single individual
yields about half a terabyte of
data of information — that's
about as much information as you'll find on 106 DVDs.
«
Data from phones might
yield clues
about a flight's airspeed, direction and even cabin air pressure»
Greg van der Vink hopes that EarthScope
yields unprecedented
data about faults and plates.
Together with
data about how many weeds can be tolerated without a
yield loss, this will lead to a reduction in the area treated with herbicides,» Donn says.
The
data showed that the soy - dairy blend
yields an increase in select amino acid delivery for
about an hour longer than the use of whey protein alone.
This is the basic idea of quantum simulators: Much like computer simulations, which
yield data from which we can learn something
about the physical world, a quantum simulation can
yield results
about a different quantum system that can not be directly accessed in the lab.
Data from Cassini have yielded new ideas about how rings behave, and a grant from NASA allowed Chancia and Hedman to examine Uranus data gathered by Voyager 2 in a new li
Data from Cassini have
yielded new ideas
about how rings behave, and a grant from NASA allowed Chancia and Hedman to examine Uranus
data gathered by Voyager 2 in a new li
data gathered by Voyager 2 in a new light.
It scans a very broad area of the genome (508 genes and more than two million base pairs or letters of the genome, i.e.. A, T, C, and G) with high accuracy (each region of the genome is sequenced or «read» 60,000 times),
yielding about 100 times more
data than other sequencing approaches.
These
data can
yield fundamental lessons
about the storms, says tornado meteorologist Roger Wakimoto, who didn't participate in surveys this time around.
An analysis of satellite
data yielded further clues
about the plane's final movements, indicating it went down in the Indian Ocean
«These generous gifts enable us to take a major step forward in realizing the promise of
data collection and analysis on a massive scale, and bringing the discoveries it
yields into the day - to - day practice of medicine,» said Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, who spoke
about the institution's strategic vision as a place for translational discovery.
It is important to regard the LGM studies as just one set of points in the cloud
yielded by other climate sensitivity estimates, but the LGM has been a frequent target because it was a period for which there is a lot of
data from varied sources, climate was significantly different from today, and we have considerable information
about the important drivers — like CO2, CH4, ice sheet extent, vegetation changes etc..
While they reflect credible prior ranges of ECS, expert priors may also be influenced by knowledge
about observed climate change, and thus may
yield overly confident estimates when combined with the same
data (Supplementary Material, Appendix 9.
Here reportorial selectivity
yields to subtler decisions
about which
data to include and how to interpret them.
Scholars have found easier, cheaper, and more fruitful
yields from mining administrative
data sets, usually stemming from compliance reports at the school or district level, than from collecting detailed information
about what's happening in real classrooms in real time.
The paper called a competency - based model «workable only insofar as its measures of learning
yield trustworthy
data about students» prospects for future success.»
According to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the primary overseer of research within the Department of Education, «scientifically based research» fits the following criteria: It randomly assigns its test subjects to comparable groups; it
yields reliable, measurable
data; if the study makes any claims
about what causes its effects, it «substantially eliminates plausible competing explanations»; its methods are clear enough that other researchers can repeat or extend them; and, finally, the study has been accepted by a peer - reviewed journal or equivalent panel of «independent experts.»
«Students need support in thinking
about and understanding math concepts,» According to Parmar, traditional assessments that
yield pass - fail
data are rarely useful instructionally.
Additional
data from interviews and observations over the course of the class might have
yielded a more robust understanding of how these enhancements impacted the ways in which teachers worked in the course and made it possible to begin to develop hypotheses
about ways in which teachers develop content knowledge on geology in online classes and how course design can best support it.
The policy brief, A Blueprint for Better Information: Recommendations for a Federal Postsecondary Student - Level
Data Network, outlines how a secure student - level data network managed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and informed by data already held by federal agencies can yield more timely, high - quality and complete information about outcomes for today's postsecondary stude
Data Network, outlines how a secure student - level
data network managed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and informed by data already held by federal agencies can yield more timely, high - quality and complete information about outcomes for today's postsecondary stude
data network managed by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and informed by
data already held by federal agencies can yield more timely, high - quality and complete information about outcomes for today's postsecondary stude
data already held by federal agencies can
yield more timely, high - quality and complete information
about outcomes for today's postsecondary students.
Performance assessments, however, typically do not
yield comparative
data; rather, they provide criterion - referenced information
about what children know and what students need to work on in order to perform better (Meisels, 1996).
One such challenge was significant limitations regarding the underlying validity of the
data that were to inform judgments
about performance and accountability, which corresponded with a less than robust picture of the meaningful steps that should then be taken to improve systems and
yield better student learning and outcomes.
It's not enough to talk
about building students» collaboration and communication while we focus all the «
data - driven» efforts in schools on content assessments that
yield easy - to - quantify results.
During earnings season, investors worried
about the impact of a flattening
yield curve on small cap banks, which make up roughly 25 percent of the Russell 2000, according to Bloomberg
data.
My proxy for the cost of capital for the market as a whole is the long - term Moody's Baa bond index, for which we have
about 100 years of
yield data.
And what I meant by the comment
about interest rates, commodity prices and the earnings of the S&P 500 is that backtesting models are inherently flawed, since embedded into previous earnings are the
data that drive them, like commodity prices, the slope of the Treasury
yield curve (and related borrowing costs) and other unanticipated events.
Using
data from Royal LePage, a detached bungalow in parts of Ottawa costs
about $ 221,000, pays
about $ 3,100 in taxes and rents for
about $ 1,700, which
yields about 7.8 %.
«No matter how fast or sophisticated those models are, feeding them false or unproven assumptions
about CO2 and manipulated or «homogenized» temperature
data still
yields garbage output, scenarios and predictions.»
The USDA / NASS studies tracked harvested acres without differentiating between irrigated and non-irrigated acreage; it gathered
data on planted vs. harvested acres for some crops but not others; it did not account for systems in which «baby vegetable» crops (usually organic) are grown in short rotations on the same plot (such as spinach, lettuce, and carrots) and thus have lower
yields; and it omitted some
data that would have revealed too much information
about individual farmers, in cases where very few growers produce a particular crop.
The ISPM also states: «Adjusting T2
data to remove an estimated contribution from the stratosphere
yields tropospheric trend coefficients ranging from
about 0.12 oC to 0.19 oC per decade, depending on the method.»
While a recent report tells us current droughts in the western USA hardly make the top ten, we have this from Stanford University, a claim
about drought related crop insurance claims that doesn't seem to match
data on national
yields and trend.
If you assume the differences in the
data sets are perturbative (they almost have to be if you get nearly the same answer for the global means), then subtracting the adjusted versus raw
data in a self - consistent manner should
yield information
about how well the adjustment process is working.
This «induced deforestation» hypothesis is based on questionable
data and modeling assumptions
about available land and
yields, rather than on empirical evidence.
have been made to test this range against paleo -
data for the ice age and Cretaceous,
yielding approximately the same range with a «best guess» sensitivity of
about 2.0 - 3.0 ° C.
A simplistic analysis puts this recent 60 - day event at 4.25 sd from the mean for last century, but I feel measuring from the median & re-calculating the sd (with the lower half of the
data replaced with a reflection of the upper half
about the median) may
yield a more reasonable lower limit for the result.
While electronic billing and task - based billing codes provide useful information
about how firms spend their time at the matter level, there is a degree of subjectivity in how the billing codes are applied, which can
yield some murky
data.
This
yields information helpful to families who may be making determinations
about services, and the
data helps providers and administrators focus on continuous improvement in the delivery of mental health services.