These issues can have knock-on effects on the quality and timeliness of the data, which in turn affect its usability.
Rather like a supermarket loyalty card, public transport smartcards can record passenger data, which in turn allows providers to analyse and shape a better service.
Cull is a word which seems to have crept into discussions in recent times which implies some sort of quantitative strategy based on scientific data, which in this case it is not.
A street crime has a victim, who typically reports the crime to the police, which generates data, which in turn generate thousands of academic papers by criminologists, sociologists and economists.
The path through the internet network is driven by which server computers need to be accessed to provide data, which in turn is controlled by the type of request (ie video or text) and your geographical location.
In the process, it collects mounds of environmental data which, in the hands of climate scientists, could add greatly to our understanding of global warming.
The hackers then captured passwords from that computer and used them to gain access to other machines on the network and steal some of RSA's data, which, in turn, allowed them to hack RSA's clients using duplicates of the now compromised security tokens.
To reduce causality problems, we use the earliest available data, which in general are around the mid-1990s.
This will allow future pooling of data which in turn will lead to more solid and robust conclusions.
Temnos is launching a new platform today that it says will give online publishers important data, which in turn will allow them to make their content more engaging.
League of Legends, among other games, offers open APIs, enabling e-sports companies to pull in gameplay data, which in turn makes in-game coaching possible.
