One does not find a needle any faster by putting all the hay in the stack.

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Now you have to find a needle in a million haystacks.

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Splunk then allows that data to be sifted, sorted, summarized, and visualized so that you can find a needle in a haystack or look at the shape of the whole haystack.

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"Some could have been bitten by insects such as mosquitoes, and in other cases there were moles, or skin pigmentation, and we couldn't find a needle puncture wound, " said Wang, speaking at the news conference.

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You can get the information yourself online, from the SEC's Edgar database, if you don't mind slogging through a haystack of electronic paperwork to find the needle.

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But what really moves the needle on economic growth are 100 or so companies each year that launch, find a market, execute, scale, learn, adjust and sail past the billion-dollar annual revenue mark within two decades.

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