And the company has reunited two long-separated siblings by acquiring Nielsen Media Research, the television measurement business, and A. C. Nielsen, the giant global compiler of data on sales of packaged goods.
Especially in "The Rise of the Creative Class," which is by far the best of his books, he shows himself to be an amiable, unpretentious thinker — not somebody with an arrestingly original mind but a dogged, careful compiler of data and assimilator of material drawn from across a wide range.
"No one can promise success, but there are patterns that sophisticated compilers of data can identify," Mr. Rosenblatt said.
Many nontraditional music outlets, though, fall outside the reporting of Nielsen SoundScan, the industry's compiler of sales data, which is trying to keep its data current.
According to the main compiler of forest data, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation, about 4 billion hectares (10 billion acres) of forest remain, covering 31% of the Earth's land surface.
Although all figures are checked by two IBC staff and the original compiler of the data, the accuracy ultimately relies both on deaths actually reported by the media and on the rigor of the reporting agency.
The authors have compiled growth data from other compilers of such data (in a way that is not easily traceable) and from primary literature from a wide variety of organisms growing under many different conditions with varying relationships to the conditions in which they were evolved to live.
"It's not like every fan has lost their job," says Jon Greenberg, executive editor of data compiler Team Marketing Research.
Upon instantiation, only one of the specialized templates is instantiated by the compiler, depending on the type of data SamplingType.
Wood Mackenzie, a respected global compiler of oil and gas data, estimates the Bakken reserves are more like 9 billion bbl.
Initially, the XTend (Efftinge 2006) library is used as a front end of the compiler, loading the data of the model into a hierarchical structure in memory, similar to a Domain Object Model.
