With some number-crunching and assumptions about how preferences back home would influence the votes of lawmakers, the researchers found that the annual added cost per household of a clean energy policy would have to drop below $59 a year to pass the current Senate and below $48 a year to pass the current House.
It then learned to connect those preferences back to people with similar interests.
Looking beyond the problem of size and fit for online retailers, a possible future additional revenue stream for the business, once it has ramped up and gathered more sizing data, could come from monetising its database of body measurements in another way: by selling information about body size and fit preferences back to clothes-makers to help them make more saleable clothes.
Tank Top Movies makes money from any available affiliate revenue generated from the leads it produces, though the primary business model is a more ambitious data play: It wants to help the film industry better understand their audience by selling aggregated viewer behaviour and preferences back to them — but only when, and if, it's able to reach enough scale to be in a position to do so.
Change the home page in your browser's preferences back to what you want it to be.
Simply set Skype and your System Sound Preferences back again (if you have to change the latter) and re-start LineIn, and you're back in business for dual track Skype recording to GarageBand again.
It also allows everyone to make their own cup according to personal preference, going back for more of their favourite bits (you can see I've been instrumental in this part of the idea).
The preference dates back to the cattle industry, but culturally you can chalk it up to bigger-in-Texas palates.
However, their 2016 simulation shows that under projected demographic changes, even if minority voter preference shifts back to 2004 levels, it might not be enough to win a presidential election.
The two preferences hark back to Social Security's 1930s groundbreaking origins.
The science of preferences dates back to the origins of the advertising and public-relations industries, but the Internet has provided it with a vast new field of operations.
