First of all, the entity data and the sentiment analysis and other analysis techniques become part of the meta data for the unstructured data.

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This new stage in the evolution of data science holds a lot of promise, but also requires people that could take advantage of the new technologies and techniques for data analysis.

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Nan Laird, a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health, who was not involved with the study, says that she believes both the analysis and the data-gathering techniques used by Dr Roberts to be sound.

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The problem with looking for supporting analysis is that we can probably find it (we have Big Data and a myriad of analytical techniques).

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Despite these sophisticated techniques, which economists now apply as a matter of course, the analysis of economic data remains messy.

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