Still, a huge amount of information was amassed by the diggers, whose field notebooks are carefully preserved in McCormick Hall to this day, and there is talk of a major re-analysis of all the written data, applying more modern methods.
It is the hot term referring to the increasingly large datasets of information being amassed as a result of our social, mobile, and digital world.
The concept that a 'tipping point' occurs when a behaviour or cultural norm reaches a threshold when sufficient knowledge, information, expectation and/or peer pressure is amassed is beautifully illustrated in this book, which tells the story of Dr. Pittet's hand hygiene journey.
Should taxpayers in America stand by while information on this issue from other countries is amassed?
The information is being amassed through a variety of routine procedures, with the police leading the way as prime collectors of biometrics for something as non-threatening as a simple moving violation.
See related editorial by Zafarana and Bristow, http://breast-cancer-research.com/content/12/4/111 Although considerable information has been amassed concerning potential risk factors and the genetic background of breast cancer, the etiology of the disease is still poorly understood [ 1].
"And if you think about what's going on in the U.S. right now, and the entire concern with private data, and what is being collected on us — our likes, our dislikes, and things that people don't even know about — all this information that's being amassed about you, it's incredibly timely".
In that case the information appeared to be amassed from a wide range of sources, and included addresses, birthdates, phone numbers and sentiment analyses for predicting individuals' opinions, religion and ethnicity.
We've seen a lot of people already downloading their Facebook data in the last week or so (without today's update), and the impression you get is that they are generally coming away shocked by the amount of information that had been amassed through Facebook's various apps across web and mobile.
Just as with conventional assets, information is increasingly amassed as a resource to generate tangible benefits, although primarily via improved decision making and process performance.
