It has spent tens of millions of dollars evaluating seismic data and funding drilling crews, mostly Turks, Kurds and Romanians.

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But evaluating the seismic data and log reports has not been easy.

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Saltsman also tells me that Card and Krueger responded to the critique by Neumark and Wascher, in a paper published in the same issue of The American Economic Review as the Neumark and Wascher paper, re-evaluating their own data and scrutinizing payroll data raised by other scholars.

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One-hundred-and-two holes have been dug so far and 1, 100 measurements have been made of ice thickness, snow density and other features - data deemed vital by scientists evaluating the future of the Arctic sea-ice.

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Businesses evaluating how to get in on the Big Data boom need to decide which of three possible roles they want to play: information provider, information broker, or creator of networks through which all that Big Data-driven content and context will flow.

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Any impediments to data sharing are a major constraint to thoroughly evaluating portfolio risks.

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As one factor among many, test scores can provide useful data, but as the primary means of evaluating teachers test scores are too unreliable.

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Similar to geologists evaluating how to produce a reservoir, the efficiency engineers use this comprehensive data to calibrate simulation models that predict the financial impact of a range of efficiency measures over the building life.

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Finally, after evaluating what you offer and your qualifications, some prospects will be sufficiently interested to give you personal data and consent to being contacted.

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