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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Its simple interface has to date allowed people to create and share over 72, 000 visualizations ranging from the an analysis of the budget for the city of Moscow to tag clouds of the most common word in lyrics by the Beatles.

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There's a moral here, simple but worth repeating as investors go hunting for bargains among beaten-down stocks: The price tag on a company is not just the value of the common shares but the outstanding debt, too.

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There's a moral here, simple but worth repeating as investors go hunting for bargains among beaten-down Nasdaq stocks: The price tag on a company is not just the value of the common shares but the outstanding debt, too.

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