Over the past decade, questionnaires have therefore become widely used as outcome measures in clinical trials 2 and rating scale data are becoming integral to patient care, prescribing and policymaking.
Data are becoming the new raw material of business: an economic input almost on a par with capital and labour.
Innovation in data-storage technology is now significantly outpacing progress in computer processing power, they say, heralding a new era where vast pools of digital data are becoming the most crucial element in scientific research.
These data are becoming more available in commercial buildings.
Inorganic geochemical data are becoming increasingly important in the characterization of hydrocarbon source rocks.
One-second data are becoming more widely available now with much development in sensors, digitisers and in data distribution.
Monitoring data are becoming more and more important and part of the re-evaluation procedure of pesticides.
Section 3 studies new and emerging issues associated with e-discovery when cloud computing and big data are becoming prevalent.
High resolution elevation data are becoming publicly available that can benefit the 2-D flood modeling community.
In addition to more traditional geographical data such as images (rasters) and vectors, point cloud data are becoming increasingly available.
With the pervasive penetration of the sensor networks into people's daily life, data are becoming easily obtainable.
