Unlike many other companies in the realm of data science, Pentaho is focused on what users do to get value from data and how to make it easier, and it shows in their product.

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Sentiment analysis was one of the first steps capital markets took outside the realm of market data, said McGovern.

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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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This kind of information is the coin of the realm in the personal-data economy.

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The modern military is, more than ever, a realm where technology and computer data are utilized in an ultra-fast paced environment where lives are on the line.

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Hadoop is advancing from the realm of the consumer and into the enterprise data center.

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Packaged applications can help to deliver some of this data, but analytics vendors have recently moved their offerings into the realm of the business user.

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Most new defense jobs at home turned out to be in data collection and intelligence, which required college degrees and specialized knowledge, or in the low-paying realm of airport and building security.

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