It has achieved this by making it easier and cheaper than ever to analyze and access the unprecedented volumes of data churned out by the Internet.
For two days each week, you'll find Harry at his Cambridge lab, where he decodes the data churned out by the Large Hadron Collider.
Even the humblest home machine can become a cog in a larger computational wheel, receiving data, churning through it at its own speed and returning the results.
Economists as well as Wall Street analysts and investors fret that the spigot of data churned out by the government could stop if the shutdown extends into next week.
Answers to such questions cannot be found, typically, in the sort of data churned out annually in the U.S. News and World Report rankings, which tend to focus on inputs like average SAT scores or college rejection rates.
PAGE B3 PROGRAM FINDS USE BEYOND SEARCH Hadoop, a free software program named after the creator's son's stuffed elephant, above, has made it easier than ever to analyze and access the unprecedented volumes of data churned out by the Internet.
But that doesn't mean digital preservation is pointless: if we're going to save even a fraction of the trillions of bits of data churned out every year, we can't think of digital preservation in the same way we do paper preservation.
This is, of course, insignificant to the amount of social media data churned out daily by Twitter alone (approximately 140,000,000 tweets per day as of this writing [4]), in addition to Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, and the other prominent social networking sites.
► "Hoping to tame the torrent of data churning out of biology labs, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced $32 million in awards in 2014 to help researchers develop ways to analyze and use large biological data sets, Kaiser and Emily Underwood wrote Thursday at ScienceInsider.
He turned to the data, churning out spreadsheet after boozy spreadsheet to tabulate 10 alco-criteria -- from per-capita craft breweries to last-call hours -- on which all states in the Land of the Free would be measured.
Take subatomic physics, where data are churned out by the petabyte.
