Internet pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee has stated: "Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves" [ 1], and despite the challenges created due to data production in areas such as genomics growing at rates potentially faster than the ability to store and process it, attempts must still be made to capture and safeguard as much of these precious resources as possible.
They are a precious, near-extinct resource.
You are a precious, unique snowflake.
Oil and data are both precious resources, powerful when refined and used for the appropriate purposes, and toxic when misused and mishandled.
It shows how data are precious input parameters of the model and gives them an utility of great importance.
Although it is too early to observe an effect of the new vaccination schedule, such baseline data are precious for further evaluation of the programme, in particular with regard to its impact on the incidence of varicella and its complications over time and possible herd immunity effects.
"These kind of data are precious and rare," Dr. Davis said.
Daniel Schnurr (@daniel_schnurr) heads the research group Data Policies at the University of Passau, and Michael Wohlfarth is data opportunity and privacy manager at Unitymedia, based in Cologne, Germany. 1. S. Gordon, "Our Personal Data are Precious — We Must Take Back Control," Financial Times, July 18 , 2017
Sentinel General Practice network is a precious source of national clinical data about the last GP's consultation and GPs' management prior to suicide attempt in general practice.
The private data we exhaust when we move through the digital world is a precious resource, not pollution".
