As illustrated by the example shown here, however, the presence of DNA of unexpected origin in genomic sequences should not be regarded in principle as unwelcome information, but as additional data that can potentially improve the understanding of an organism's biology.
Ending a two-month stalemate, chemical company Engelhard of the United States has agreed to share nonpublic financial data with its unwelcome suitor, Germany's BASF.
Dark patterns used to obtain consent to collect users' personal data often combine unwelcome interruption with a built in escape route — offering an easy way to get rid of the dull looking menu getting in the way of what you're actually trying to do.
In The Mismeasure of Man, Gould revealed that they could only prove this by massaging the results, cooking the data, and eliminating the unwelcome findings.
It remains unlikely to be disproved completely in the near future, in part because proving a negative proposition is difficult to do and also because negative data can be seen as unwelcome news.
It has lost 6.3 percent of its value in April, unnerving global investors who suffered another unwelcome bit of news Friday from the United States, where data showed that the job market was still struggling.
George Monbiot likens me to a dictator who has "shut down programmes that produce unwelcome findings and sought to muzzle scientists" (Muzzle scientists, bin data: this is the new Lysenkoism, 1 October).
So it is a bitter mark of modernity that even here, divorce has swept in, up nearly sevenfold since 1970, giving the county the unwelcome distinction of being a standout in this category of census data.
The amount of data that fly freely across cyberspace may create an unwelcome surprise when you return home.
With narratives like these, why are we bothering with all this data, especially if it may produce some unexpected, maybe even unwelcome findings?
