And specialists are involved in taking this raw data and turning it into useful information via photogrammetry and other specialized skills.

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By reselling their public data, Twitter is the first social service to monetize its raw data in this way.

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In this new technological world, data is the raw material for growth.

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Retail pricing is very much part of game theory and seeing this in the raw, rather than in simulated experiments, could be a very useful data set to mine to work out more about how such game theory applies in the real world.

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