Big Data, while ripe with potential to be mined for insights, needs a different, more dynamic approach to realizing its possibilities than the top-down, root-cause analysis of traditional business intelligence.
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If the US can increase production by 25% within the decade, could the world?? I doubt it, but we cannot be sure, because there are bound to be fields in other countries ripe for exploitation with the same technology.
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Russia's full cooperation with the fight against terrorism has led to the allies believing the time may be ripe for taking a fresh look at the way NATO does business with the former iron curtain superpower.
One might expect that at the ripe old age of 100 the company would be creaking along with brittle bones, weak knees, a bad heart, and finding it hard to get up in the morning.
It could be that after twenty years the time is now ripe for Chileans to break with the taboo of voting for a center - right candidate.
But the wider prize, an understanding of how to stay healthy into a ripe old age, with all that may bring to medical science, will ultimately be shared by everybody.
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That is hasty: Britain is still a place where snap judgments are made about shoes, accents and haircuts and where the ripe vowels and superior biographies that distinguish many senior Tories might, with more tact, be turned against them.
Having said that, it is worth also saying that Mr Sharif is an implausible upholder of the democratic ideal, that the country now needs an impartial judiciary more than ever before, and that this episode is not the end of the story: although, at 50, Pakistan might be considered ripe for a crisis of the mid-life variety, this one had more to do with growing up than growing old.
Although there is little overlap with operations in America (unlike Molson Coors and SABMiller) Anheuser is generally reckoned to be ripe for some cost cutting.
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Traders monitor the data to gauge the general mood of speculators, with excessively high or low numbers viewed by many as signs of overbought or oversold markets that may be ripe for price corrections.
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