Companies are investing in servers and data-analysis software to help them handle and make sense of the rising tide of data, generated inside the company and outside — customers, Web traffic, social network communications, and other sources.
Policing the rising tide of data collection and trading is probably beyond the capability of any government without a crackdown so massive that it could stop the new information economy in its tracks.
They examine the consequences of the fragmentation of data that the Web produces, as news articles, novels and record albums are broken down into bits and bytes; the growing emphasis on immediacy and real-time responses; the rising tide of data and information that permeates our lives; and the emphasis that blogging and partisan political Web sites place on subjectivity.
I am optimistic — not because I expect human nature to change, but because we now have at our disposal an enormous new natural resource: a rising tide of data that enables us to see and understand our world as never before.
'A fundamental characteristic of our age is the rising tide of data - global, diverse, valuable and complex.
But when they get any traction, Google is excellent at pushing them uphill, bit by bit, year by year, with a relentless tide of data-driven iterations, all the way to the top of the mountain.
Test your math skills with this question created by Pete Diamantis at Math for America from the article "In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books".
Tide of genetic data refutes idea that an earlier expansion of modern humans populated the island continent.
But increasingly, the discussion is sustained by a tide of new data on the gulf between rich and poor.
The problem is made worse because there are not enough knowledgeable experts to handle the rising tide of genome data, and there never will be — exponential growth in the number of human experts is not a viable option.
