Social scientists have kind of decided and figured out that comparing to the census isn't quite a reasonable comparison.
Mroz took those numbers and figured out how to get the most out of the small amount of electrical current produced.
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It hit me when I read the information on participants and figured out that even among the press there was a caste system.
So on my last flight across the US, I did some informal research and figured out that my last business trip touched the lives of 38 people.
While they eventually did prove successful and figured out a way to monetize, startups copying their business model will not be given the same chances these days.
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"We went through their website and figured out who one of their key clients was, and then set up a fake email chain, " says MAD managing partner Michael Murray.
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One winter day, a pipe burst in our basement, and my mother had no idea what to do, so I called my father and figured out how to fix it.
The app I created took statistics from the gazillions of bit.ly links shared on Twitter and figured out which news stories were most popular on the web at any given moment.
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Lee targeted deals of under a million HKD and figured out that not only could he put sellers and buyers together, but he could build the acquired companies after he had invested.
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After we launched the site and figured out how to take orders and ship products, the next task we faced was to get more visitors to the site, and ultimately more sales.
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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Civil and Environmental Engineering department looked at the 40 largest U.S. airports and figured out which ones would be the most likely to spread a disease in the event of an outbreak in the cities they serve.
Convertro tackled that problem and figured out how to link purchases on one computer to their initial exposure, then applied that to going cross-device with mobile phones, where the need is great for one recent campaign in major league sports, Zwelling says, mobile drove 40% of traffic but only earned 5% of its actual conversions.
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In the nineties and around the turn of the millennium, some of the clever idea people in very prestigious firms got a little carried away and figured out a way to essentially create basis out of thin air, which would mean that nobody with substantial capital gains would ever have to pay tax on them again.
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In pro basketball playoffs as well as in college basketball in the late 1980s and 1990s, coaches and players figured out that leagues and officials prefer not to foul out more than one or two players in a game.
Obviously lots has to -- a lot of things are going to have to shake out and get figured out obviously as we watch that.
And they figured out what the right price to charge was, and what options to make standard.
You looked at your assets within the context of the digital world, and you figured out a way to make an old brand category newly relevant and exciting.
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Somebody is paying for all those crumpets, and they figured out who: Investors themselves, in the form of fees.
Rivals including Hewlett-Packard and Apple figured out sooner that computer users wanted stylized notebooks instead of the lost-cost, utilarian machines Dell was churning out.
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It was Dr. Kenney who took credit for naming Shamu, the famed killer whale, and then figured out how to fly her to Sea World from Seattle.
The success of the war effort depended on having these ships available and the management figured out better processes and the front-line workers rose to the occasion.
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Apple had chosen not to adopt Flash on the iPhone, but I assumed it was just a matter of time before Apple and Adobe figured out a way to fix that.
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He ran a spreadsheet and quickly figured out that if IBM made PCs based on the new Intel 386 chip, those powerful chips would begin eating like termites into IBM's expensive mid-range computers, which were enjoying absurdly fat margins.
But, really, does it take all that to figure out what house movers, wedding planners, and tax accountants figured out ages ago?
Gevo and Amyris have both figured that out and left the biofuel business.
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Once Big Data becomes Any Data, and every company has figured out how to handle and make use of the vast reserves of information available, the winners will be easy to spot.
They require pure hydrogen to produce electricity, and no one has figured out an economical way to store and transport that fuel.
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