Chris has helped with a couple of other sentiment analysis tasks that I thought would inform Forbes readers.

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Getting back to the static analysis, a couple of things.

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But Big Data can also be an enormous waste of time and money if that mountain of raw data consists of only dross, or the only patterns that emerge from all of your analysis are those you could have discovered with a couple hours of simple observation.

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And it's very difficult to make any sort of intelligent analysis while we're going to the election in a couple of weeks' time.

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