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Another creature living in the researchers' version of Pandora's box that is raising its ugly head even further these days thanks to the growing impact point-mania, is the spectre of data fabrication.
If RIAT evokes the spectre of data mining, it is important to remember that we currently have no way to judge the fidelity of the process of synthesising thousands of pages of a clinical study report into a journal publication.
So far there is no reason to be concerned about introduction of bias in association and causal studies, but inclusion of a wide spectre of data and more sources for background data provide opportunity for addressing this in disease specific sensitivity studies.
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Spectre married the highly topical issue of data snooping to the return of an established 007 icon, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, but future instalments might flourish by jettisoning Bond's old-fashioned obsession with 60s-style supervillains altogether.
Similar tools tell a railway company how many of its locomotives need servicing at any one time so that it can schedule the work at its maintenance centres.All these sensors will generate a phenomenal quantity of data, raising the spectre of a huge information overload.
A SPECTRE is haunting Europe, the spectre of Margaret Thatcher.
Hence, a wide spectre of analyses may be done on the merged data.
It was the third Western-themed episode of Star Trek, after The Original Series "Spectre of the Gun" and The Next Generation "A Fistful of Datas".
Last month, the North raised the spectre of a "new form" of nuclear test, and satellite data has shown increased activity at a test site.
Furthermore, the spectre of revalidation has left Trusts and Colleges looking for independent data that could be used to support this process.
The spectre of algorithmic regulation has been with us for some time, but big data now has the power to make it real.
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