Or, in other words, how do I help resolve the conflict my Big Data and analysis has generated?

FORBES: Meeting the Big Data challenge: DON'T be objective

Their performance is not assessed, and their twin duties (investment advice and actuarial analysis) create a conflict of interest.

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He had a cast-iron reputation for understanding the financial markets, but his analysis would sometimes bring him into conflict with chancellors of the exchequer.

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Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, points out a basic conflict: Wind farms have to be places the winds blow steadily, which often also happen to be areas favored by raptors and migratory birds.

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If we accept that informed skepticism is the best general approach to decision making, then this research suggests that the key to conducting good analysis lies in its ability to generate conflict.

FORBES: Meeting the Big Data challenge: DON'T be objective

Saturday's conflict erupted during a meeting to discuss a preliminary analysis of what went wrong in the 2012 election and what it will take to do better at the polls in the future.

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The first is that we specifically do not look for analysis whose results might support our story, but the exact opposite: we look for analysis whose results are most likely to refute our story and thereby create conflict.

FORBES: Meeting the Big Data challenge: DON'T be objective

"The impact of Hezbollah on the conflict should not be underestimated, " said Torbjorn Soltvedt, senior analyst at the British risk analysis firm Maplecroft.

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In situations such as the ongoing conflict in Syria, reliance on broadcast witness statements, videos and photographic images and even the analysis of samples brought out of the country will always be somewhat problematic as there is no independent way to verify the information.

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