Companies pursue Big Data because it can be revelatory in spotting business trends, improving research quality, and gaining insights in a variety of fields, from IT to medicine to law enforcement and everything in between and beyond.

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She highlighted the key role of the Capacity-Development for Education for All programme (CapEFA) to sustain efforts of developing countries to achieve the EFA goals by 2015 and the imperative to pursue efforts on data elaboration, collection and analysis to inform education policies.

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For our investment portfolio at TrueBridge, we pursue a rigorous, data-driven approach to analyze each fund we consider, while also tapping into our network of venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and limited partners.

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Dr. Lin has created a crowd sourcing model where patients and their families can raise funds through social networking, use those funds to sequence a genome using services such as IGS, partner with geneticists willing to help interpret the results, and then make the case to pharmaceutical companies to pursue novel treatments based on solid biological data.

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Race to the Top has helped drive states nationwide to pursue higher standards, improve teacher effectiveness, use data effectively in the classroom, and adopt new strategies to help struggling schools.

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