Clear Capital crunches data for several hundred metro areas as well as sub-zip code boundaries, meaning a much larger data pool.

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Around the office, data-mining experiments were given mysterious code names such as Narwhal and Dreamcatcher.

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It is also tricky to capture the data in the field and stick the bar-code labels on the produce as it is picked and packed.

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