Founded in 1977 as a boutique providing information security services to U.K. defense customers, Detica specializes today in business intelligence the analysis of huge amounts of data to weed out fraud, manage risk and gain competitive advantage.
You can weed out the crazies.
Compilation CDs (a repacked collection of previous released recordings) and the ones without release dates were weeded out from the data, resulting in 63,679 CDs and 13,981 composers for analysis.
When the problematic "mabra" group [ 4] was weeded out of the data, set the percentage of correctly classified notably increased for both the conservative (76.7% correct) and radical (74.4% correct) dietary classifications (Table 4B,C).
Software based on a mathematical formula called wavelet maxima processes the data from those images to weed out irrelevant information.
Instead of feeling overwhelmed, take a deep breath, thoroughly analyze your readiness, identify sensitive data, weed out incompatible practices and implement encryption and similar security measures to enforce highly monitored usage and access.
One factor I found interesting is that the Census Bureau weeds out outliers with unusually high revenue from the data.
But Hripcsak believes that by documenting all the health problems that millions of people have experienced shortly after starting on prescription drugs, and then using a number of analytic tricks to weed out incidental correlations in the data, he will be able to provide solid estimates for the prevalence of many drug side effects for the first time.
MySpace says it polices itself and its 100 million members by checking names and personal data to weed out known sex offenders from the social networking site.
Researchers determined that Twitter had about 183 million active monthly users at the end of 2013, because they "rely heavily on consumer survey data to weed out business accounts, multiple accounts for individual users and other sources of potential double-counting".
At a hearing on OxyContin abuse that year, Pennsylvania Republican Rep. James C. Greenwood, then the chairman of a House oversight committee, told Purdue's top executives to use sales data to "weed out" bad doctors prescribing their drug.
