Basic beginning Benjamin Graham analysis.

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An analysis of searches beginning with "why" shows that most queries are related to school projects and fall sharply during the summer and Christmas holidays.

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Foley is a big believer in statistical analysis, especially the type of in-depth, multivariable analysis that academics are beginning to crank out using the detailed ShotLink data that the Tour records for every shot in every tournament.

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At the beginning of 2010, I highlighted a fascinating analysis by the consultants McKinsey called Debt and Deleveraging, which showed quite how indebted the economies of the developed west had become.

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Now such "distributed processing" is beginning to solve thorny business problems, from complex graphics to risk analysis to design.

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Meanwhile, Colorado voters were projected to reject an anti-abortion amendment that would have defined a "person" as "every human being from the beginning of the biological development of that human being, " according to a CNN analysis of exit poll data.

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"For all the complicated statistics that are involved, we could see plainly from the beginning something's wrong, " said Rares Benga, a Manhattan parent who works in data analysis.

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The analysis surrounding who LulzSec was and what it represented for the world of corporate and government security is just beginning.

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