"Each day my self-worth was tied to the data," Alexandra Carmichael, one of the founders of the self-tracking site CureTogether, wrote in a heartfelt blog post about why she recently stopped tracking.
Our analysis of the use of databases in Dutch pharmaceutical policy adds to these insights by showing that their effect was not so much tied to the data that were delivered to the policy arena, but rather to the mechanism for data collection and the way (the organization of) the databases changed the relations between clinical and policy practices.
Some cloud giants view the data-crunching acceleration of Spark – tied to the vast data stores of companies and a host of new data channels – as an enticing way to lock their brands in with how we'll work in the future.
Since these predicted values are closely tied to the public data already being stored in DSSTox-ChemProp, predictions are also stored in the ChemProp data tables.
The real impact of this specific incident is tied to the freshest data breached — the driver license numbers.
Mr. Brown, who has brokered deals on behalf of many of the largest data center providers, said that while the commercial real estate market in general was tied to the jobless rate, data centers were less sensitive to high unemployment because they typically housed wires, servers and generators — but very few employees.
The gravity measurements are tied to the absolute gravity data at KVO so that we may determine absolute gravity value at each points.
And while it's important to make sure StreetCred's tokens can be converted into "fiat currency" (i.e. regular money), Meech said this approach should also mean users are more invested in StreetCred's success: "We want to build an asset where the value of the currency is tied to the value of the data," Meech emphasized.
Instead, Google has been very clever in strategically picking new areas that all have something in common: They are all tied to the cloud and collecting data, information, and insights about how we live, work, and play, and then turning that data, information, and insights into new products and services that can help us navigate the world better.
This means remote workers can have access to a lot of data, sensors tied to the system can gather more data and centralized resources can work more efficiently.
In cases like ours, where rigorous performance assessment is complicated because data collection is tied to the intervention and real baseline data is lacking, a frequently used solution is to report data from a first observation period as baseline and to use changes from this baseline as estimates of effects [ 6].
