Sherman had formed a theory about the strategic situation and then simply made the data fit the theory.
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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.
The data may fit the theory, but there is always the risk of the theory not working in reality.
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However, this will need a slimmer stream of data to fit broadband bandwidth and fast computers stitching images together instantly.
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.
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.
The Big Data servers can fit two petabytes of storage capacity per rack.
An R2 near 1 indicates that a regression line fits the data well, while an R2 close to 0 indicates a regression line does not fit the data very well.
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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Pasteur is reported to have ignored 90% of his data that did not fit his contagion model.
In the end, the only explanation that fit the data was that Mercury at one time had an ocean of magma on its surface.
The vast majority of this growth is occurring in the realm of unstructured data, i.e. data that does not fit well into relational tables such as databases.
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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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Signs you are running out of space with the spreadsheet when Excel takes 20 minutes to refresh, runs out of memory, takes minutes to add a row, of when users start slicing data to make it fit, such as looking at a month rather than a quarter.
Those types of collisions would produce an extremely short gamma burst with no burst of light, which is the best fit for the data.
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But academics say census data are still being moulded to fit official projections.
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Rather, they subjectively fit curves to historical data and then run computer simulations to make untestable forecasts about the distant future.
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Up-front schema design is a poor fit in a world where data requirements are fluid.
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.
The school is strong in Web science, big data and artificial intelligence, making it a good fit for the first deployment of Watson in an academic institution.
And gdgt, as a premium destination for product purchase intelligence, recommendations, shopping data, and product information, was a natural fit for a number of gaps in the lineup.
People living on the English coast are more likely than those living inland to say they are fit and well, an analysis of census data suggests.
The fit of a constant trend to the overall data is striking, despite the fact that indeed there is no net warming in the last 14 years.
Doctors and other medical experts said the data on death rates had not been verified and was not fit to base a decision to close the unit on.
But determining where mobile will fit in is an exercise in correctly gathering and interpreting consumer data.
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But if one looks at a much more robust set of data based on a much wider variety of countries, one gets both a model with much better fit, and with a very different message.
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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