MH 6.59pm BST Our PULITZER PRIZE winning data journalist James Ball has been at the festival all weekend.
"Rival traffic data supplier Trafficmaster has won the data supply contract with the DoT worth £3m over three years, from ITIS," said Altium Securities.
The war for ad dollars will be won with data.
For the Rosetta mission, there is an explicit tension between satisfying the public with new discoveries and allowing scientists first crack at publishing papers based on their own hard-won data.
"If the council wins on data retention and the Parliament wins by allowing spam, then the only loser will be the customer -- twice over," said Joe McNamee, European Union affairs manager for Euro ISPA, the association of Internet service providers in Europe.
If Barack Obama's reelection in November was widely considered a win for data crunchers, who had predicted the president's victory in the face of skeptical pundits, it was a black mark for Gallup, whose polls leading up to Election Day had given the edge to Republican nominee Mitt Romney.
Things that can help establish your credibility include endorsements from customers and industry groups, information about previous grants you've won and financial data.
The data won – and the rebooted Google, with a computer scientist at its helm, will reiterate the importance of always following the data.
GOOSEN EDGES DRUMMOND: Retief Goosen had seven birdies in his six-under-par 66 and won the Dimension Data Pro-Am by three strokes over Scott Drummond at Sun City, Africa.
And, really, the mapping game is won on Big Data, isn't it?
