A vast amount of data is collected to monitor programmes – but often the wrong things are measured: whether children have attended classes, for example, rather than whether they can read, write or count better.
There is now a vast amount of data and information online to help you.
"Inspecting and analyzing a vast amount of data unfortunately took a lot of time," he said.
With such a vast amount of data being shared about individuals, trying to set those parameters individually will be tough.
A partial explanation of this emphasis is undoubtedly the fact that a vast amount of data, both primary and secondary, is literary in form.
The empirical basis of this discipline is a vast amount of data suggesting correlations (or lack thereof) between happiness and various genetic, social, economic, and personal factors.
The project has been likened to predicting the weather, a task possible only with a vast amount of data and the capacity for high-tech analysis.
Facebook is collecting a vast amount of data about the Web travels of some 800 million people worldwide with the buttons, unbeknownst to most of them.
The figures were issued by industry body the British Bankers Association BBABA), which has released a vast amount of data on borrowing to individuals and businesses, classified by more than 9,000 postcode sectors across Britain.
He writes: What should concern us is not that a vast amount of data are being scooped up, but whether there are proper controls on the way it is interrogated.
With the advent of wider networked systems, heralded by the likes of Google's Brillo and Apple's HomeKit, everything from washing machines to sex toys will soon be able to communicate, creating a vast amount of data about our lives.
