What data exist on urban areas are often general, based on averages that can mask disparities.
While companies like BiNu and Jana use mobile phones to help big brands find new information from potential or existing consumers, Kopo Kopo aims to find what data already exists, and make it available to local businesses.
So Johnson, the top Democrat on the House science committee, teamed up with two other ranking members to find out what data already exist.
NIH hasn't invested the time, money, and high-level interest needed for a proper evaluation, it added, nor shared what data do exist.
As companies create various data repositories, it becomes more challenging for interested parties such as analysts and data scientists to understand what data sources exist in a large organization.
"It's like having books in a library without a Dewey decimal system," says IBM vice president Bernard Meyerson about the current situation, in which there is no systematic way for scientists to find out what data sets exist and how to access the information.
Depending on the context in each participating country, and what data already exist from earlier work, this has been achieved by the following means: a) Focus groups with health care professionals in a variety of care settings.
What data do exist and are rapidly improving in quality, however, are on the presence of ARGs within various environmental compartments (Allen et al. 2009; Cummings et al. 2011; Ham et al. 2012), specifically on clinically relevant resistance genes within soils (Forsberg et al. 2012).
Then from what chronological data exist, we must order the types in time.
