When it comes to helping consumers buy a used car, Consumer Reports owns the mother lode of useful data.
When large numbers of nanoceramics are made and formulated into appropriate libraries, automated analytical instruments can be used to allow collection of a large amount of useful data.
The Data Store is a directory of useful data curated by Guardian journalists.
And there are sites that contain mountains of useful data on buildings and neighborhoods, like propertyshark.com.com
What's more, even when you do get encryption working correctly, it still leaves a lot of useful data vulnerable to eavesdroppers.
The networks also have plenty of useful data about their users' likes and dislikes.But they have one big drawback.
On good nights, if I pushed through until 2 or 3am, I would get a few minutes worth of useful data, but most of the time I crawled into bed with nothing to show for 20 hours of toil.
Worse, Penguin lets Hensher get away, in his biographical notes, with a self-indulgent cabaret of gags and anecdotes in place of useful data.
Regardless of what name it is given, this merger of the physical and virtual worlds could allow local authorities to deliver much more efficient services, reducing waste and unlocking reams of useful data: think water mains loaded with clusters of sensors that can alert engineers to leaks or blockages, or lampposts that can detect light levels and save energy by turning themselves off.
Sports like baseball and basketball generate all sorts of metrics that observers can use to fact-check their suppositions; fight fans, faced with tiny sample sizes and a paucity of useful data, are left to rely upon unfalsifiable theories and unscientific anecdotes.
"There's a tremendous amount of useful data out there, but consumers need to be aware of how their data is being used, and choose to share it on an explicit opt-in basis," says Tom Blomfield, CEO of Mondo, a new mobile-first bank.
