Bureau Van Dijk (BvD), another consultancy, collects data from a big range of firms, from giants like Asda and Co-op to a long tail of one-man outfits.
The authors—Tao Chen of the University of Maryland, Ajay Kalra of Rice University and Baohong Sun of Carnegie Mellon University examined purchase data from a big electronics retailer for over 600 households from November 2003 to October 2004.
Mr Reeves and his Brookings colleague Kimberly Howard take a composite measure of these things called the HOME scale (Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment) and relate it to how well children do in later life, using data from a big federal survey of those born in the 1980s and 1990s.The results are striking.
In "Married and Unmarried Parenthood and Economic Wellbeing", he addressed the "selection effect"—the question of whether married-couple families do better because of the kind of people who marry, or because of something about marriage itself.Using data from a big annual survey, he looked at all the women who had become pregnant outside marriage.
Glaxo rushed out early data from a big ongoing safety trial to rebut the heart risk concerns.
In our tests, we use this gazetteer to correct geographic data from a big sample (around 142,000 occurrence records of Amazonian specimens) from SpeciesLink, a big repository of biodiversity collection records from Brazil.
We decided to use data from a big population based study (The HUNT3 Survey) for the comparison of the prevalence of cardiovascular disease.
In this study, we investigated the suitability of the GUHA data mining method and the LISp-Miner software to extract relevant information from a big data matrix in general, and in particular a (100 times 83500) data matrix related to road traffic accidents that occurred in Finland in 2004 2008.
However, we have not been able to find suitable data from a sufficiently big cohort for external validation of our score.
Data collected from a big city in Brazil were fed into the commercial microscopic simulator AIMSUN and were used for the practical experiments.
