They're great when it comes to lightning-fast searches for data that fit certain parameters--credit card purchases that exceed a customer's normal spending patterns, say.

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These women had the intellectual discipline and honesty to allow their conclusions to arise from the data, rather than taking the shortcut of cherry-picking the data to fit preconceived notions.

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Exciting new strategies and approaches have streamlined data logging, encouraged fit-for-purpose engineering, and bred innovative financing strategies aimed towards developing the untapped resource in the built environment.

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With its all-you-can-eat data The One Plan will still fit your needs no matter how much data you use.

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In order to test the theory they analyzed whether their data fit the predictions of a well-known theoretical model of short-termism developed by Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein, who was recently named to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

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Up-front schema design is a poor fit in a world where data requirements are fluid.

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The team that has done this for Planck's data says the map is an elegant fit for the standard model of cosmology - the idea that the Universe started in a hot, dense state in an incredibly small space, and then expanded and cooled.

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It's a tall order, but Air Force officials hope that an on-board wide-area airborne surveillance system (WAAS), which uses 96 cameras to generate nearly 275TB of data every hour, and a supercomputer hosting the equivalent of 2, 000 single-core servers will fit the bill.

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