Carolinas has pulled analysts from several pockets across the system into a data analytics program and now has more than 90 involved in teams with expertise in SAS, bio-statistics, clinical data and research.

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"You tell somebody a good story, that's more powerful than tons of data, charts and graphs and statistics, " he says.

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Bardaro believes that the new data-driven market makes math skills, particularly statistics, more and more valuable to employers.

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The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) collects data from more than 100, 000 shops all across the country, and it recently reported that retail sales are up 11.4 percent so far in 2012, compared to 11.3 percent in 2011.

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