With Big Data, we are now entering the era when we will measure every data point, and then have the tools and computational power to crunch the resulting terabytes to find the secrets that lie within.
Human dignity is our starting point and the measure of our success.
At this point we will measure composure along the way.
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George W. Bush has dominated the race to this point in great measure because Republican donors believe he is capable of taking back the White House, and preventing the loss of Congress.
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The stock keyboard also offers Swype-style typing and even throws in an extra bullet point for good measure: as you drag your finger from letter to letter, a box pops up showing you the word you're currently typing.
On the left point are companies that measure the actions and preferences of individual consumers such as Epsilon (owned by Alliance Data) Acxiom and Experian.
There is nothing more boring, even to budget wonks, but the reference point against which you measure tax changes is critical to how you see those proposals.
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The point isn't to measure the most talented rosters of all time, it's to find the best teams.
At this point, we want to measure the type of digestion to see if the composure and speed of this rally continues.
Greece is close to that tipping point where almost whatever new austerity measure is implemented will fail.
Imagine a shrinking triangle where the top point is occupied by firms that measure audience size on media properties such as Nielsen, Arbitron and ComScore.
Perhaps even more to the point, China's M2 measure of money supply was up 19.5% this November compared to last (Want China Times, quoting China's Southern Weekly, has an excellent, concise article on this subject here, and really nails the issue on its head).
The inherent dignity and rights of every individual must be the starting point for all our action and the measure of its success.
In addition, according to Adair, the whole heated debate about specific absorption rates, or SAR, is beside the point because the SAR is not a measure of biological insult.
Most carmakers point to retail sales at dealerships as the best measure of market trends.
This is a fair point, so we need to find some objective measure that neutralizes all the possible differences.
Woods then closed out the victory with their fifth point of the day before Geoff Ogilvy gained a measure of respectability for the Internationals by wrecking Stricker's perfect record with a 2 and 1 win for Greg Norman's team.
It also can record the point where ball meets racket, rate your consistency and measure intensity (shots per minute and amount of actual playing time, rather than time on court).
Monday's figures from the New York Federal Reserve simply added fuel to the fire, as the measure of factory activity in the state was better than at any point in its two-year history.
"This method was not suitable as mortgage interest payments are directly influenced by official interest rates, which would make the new index less suitable for use as an inflation target measure, were the government to decide to do so at some point in the future, " the ONS said.
But here is where we bump up against my point: the fallacy of the PEG ratio as a valuation measure.
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Also (though Mr Cable does not make this very nerdy point), it's worth remembering that the government measure - net debt - is what you get when you subtract the government's assets from its gross liabilities (debt).
Reformers cannot constantly wave this idea around as though they are the only ones who care about teacher quality, and then plug their ears whenever critics point out that tests are a very crude, very imprecise measure of student achievements and teacher quality.
At one point Spain looked as though they were starting to gain a measure of control in midfield but Paraguay, who would have topped South America's World Cup qualifying group if they had won their final game, slowed the match down at every opportunity.
Regardless, my point is that the only justification for extra consumption, however you might measure it, is to encourage people to do their jobs.
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At one point Democratic state senators even fled Wisconsin in an attempt to prevent the measure from passing, escaping the reach of Mr Walker's state troopers.
The problem was that three-point shooting efficiency hasn't historically correlated to the thing Ezekowitz is trying to measure: unlikely success in the NCAA tournament.
But, the main point of this rambling piece is not to confuse what our statistics are designed to measure and blame an orange for not being an apple.
Heating degree days are a measure of how long and how far the temperature stays below 65 degrees, that being the point at which people reach for their thermostats.
The point is to stop thinking we have to maximise anything - whether it's some measure of "happiness" or GDP - and start focussing on how to live.
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