Vermont Country Store invested in data mining software because they hired somebody who had experience in the financial services industry, and she used the software to demonstrate that she could find more responsive customers for their mailings.

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Companies that sell data-mining software, surveillance cameras and other products will flaunt their work with one government to attract new business.

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The data-mining software is partly based on a model the SEC developed to trawl through hedge fund returns for signs of Bernard Madoff-style chicanery.

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