Market modeling, just as with economic modeling can be criticized for making too many or indeed making the wrong assumptions.

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And while engagement and loyalty metrics are leading-indicators of consumer behavior, they are just one ingredient in market modeling, and, of course, and unfortunately, office supplies tend to lag during economic recoveries because they are so closely tied to employment and, thus, product usage.

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After Pejic graduated from high school, he was given the opportunity to expand his modeling reach beyond the conservative, more masculine Australian market to London -- his mom even borrowed money for the flight to get him there.

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Instead of blind investing in the stock market, I downloaded fifty years of stock data and started statistically modeling what happens in hundreds of different situations.

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The good news for CIOs is that a growing amount of vendor investment has been drawn to this market, which Gartner has named Data Center Infrastructure Management. nlyte software, for example, provides a modeling, monitoring, and management suite for understanding power and cooling in a data center and optimizing placement and configuration of racks and servers.

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