How does that data support a conversation about your performance?
Services like Acumen's Lean Data program can help entrepreneurs learn a great deal about their customers in a very short time for very little money". "We think of data as a conversation, not an endpoint," she adds.
While we hope every bike rider will use the app, we think the most compelling case will involve communities who organise a campaign around data collection and a conversation about existing or proposed infrastructure.
Analysts can look at the sociometric data flowing out of a conversation, Pentland writes, and "identify [someone's] functional role — follower, orienteer, giver, seeker, and so on — without listening to the words".
Data Race's "personal multiplexer" electronically slices a dial-up phone connection into three channels: one for fax, one for data and one for a conversation.
Talking to other scientists about data is like having a conversation without agreeing which words to use, or what they mean.
But a couple weeks after that data posted I had a conversation with a Fortune 100 senior media buyer who became bearish on mobile ad spending in 2011.
A data conversation is begun between the old carrier and new to verify who the customer is, and to permit and register the transfer.
Negotiations should be based on solid information, industry data and benchmarks, and include a conversation that is broader than just dollars and cents.
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