Palantir Technologies provides a software analytic platform for the analysis of data.

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These new analytic capabilities allow managers to discover patterns, drill into detailed data, perform analysis and visualize relationships, without writing any code or contacting any data scientist.

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Second, in an ecologic analysis, one cannot control for confounding factors as one can in an analytic epidemiologic study.

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