World Trade Centre performance study: data collection, preliminary observations and recommendations.
The highly detailed account brings about accusations of systematic illegal activity inside Uber's Strategic Services Group (SSG) which allegedly sought to surface other companies' trade secrets through eavesdropping and data collection.
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.
Like many other design features, researchers have to make trade-offs between ease of data collection, improved statistical power, and interpretability of the results.
Thus, when designing an approach for M&E, it may be beneficial and necessary to allow for a trade-off between scientifically rigorous data collection and quality metrics on the one hand and involvement of the right stakeholders on the other hand.
Finally, the paper explains how this work is applicable towards improvements in data collection, human factors, trade-off analysis for future technology insertions, and other ECMO improvement projects.
Tong, K.H. Timber Trade Statistics, Data Sources and Methods of Data Collection and Verification.
Setting: Five representative countries were selected for data collection, based on their trading patterns: Fiji, Guam, Nauru, New Caledonia, and Samoa.
The framework provides a basis for data collection and explorations of trade-offs, synergies and feedback loops in the land system.
This required a huge investment in data collection and analysis, forcing a trade-off with the number of populations analysed in this study.
