All the classic signs are there: you can eat buffet dinners all 52 weeks a year at Big Data conferences, Big Data tag lines are now common in emails from industry analysts, and even investment bankers are tossing around the phrase.

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Of course, for a dramatist looking for a subject, Best is like an all-you-can-eat buffet placed in front of a very fat person.

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Employer-subsidized insurance creates an all-you-can-eat buffet approach to health care, where no drug or surgery is too expensive to consider, since to the patient everything is virtually free.

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More locally sourced fine dining, then, less all-you-can-eat buffet.

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It is hard to make a profit feeding obese people at an "all-you-can-eat" buffet.

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Before we join the rest of the sports media in a two-week all-you-can-eat prediction buffet ahead of the upcoming Super Bowl between the New England Patriots and New York Giants, we've allowed ourselves a moment to look back.

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