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In order to conduct the sort of statistical analysis Silver faults Noonan's column for lacking, you'd need a representative database of persons who are politically active and a method of coding their political activity by ideology and intensity.

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Without the software, if a college or business wanted to subscribe to some kind of online database, they'd have to create hundreds or thousands of accounts, one for each individual user.

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If ever there were a purgatory for ideas, it'd be the USPTO's patent application database.

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Froman, the NRA board member, said she'd like to see more sharing of resources to ensure a database of the mentally ill would prevent them from having access to guns.

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Spencer already had a small database of would-be entrepreneurs from the Web page he'd set up at Capital Express.

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The database, which made its initial debut in September 2011, covers all 50 states and Washington, D.

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