Social network analysis may not and need not be a perfect mapping to show value.

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We previously published a detailed analysis about how Dish Network could have been impacted if it had lost its case against TiVo.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) said that their analysis of temperature data from a global network of weather stations indicated that the average temperature for 2012 was 0.57C above the 20th Century average.

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Dr Stephen Hammer is co-director of the Urban Climate Change Research Network, a consortium of academics and institutions dedicated to the analysis of climate change mitigation, and an adviser to New York City's Energy Policy Taskforce.

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Researchers in the Canadian Network for Observational Drug Effect Studies (CNODES) performed a retrospective observational analysis of administrative databases in Canada, the UK and the US containing more than 2 million patients newly treated with statins. 59, 636 of the subjects already had chronic kidney disease.

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Therefore, it is possible to apply a lot of cutting-edge social network and social gaming-type analysis to the data.

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There are mashups that let you see which products are selling best on eBay , that help manage the sale of foreclosed property through a network of real estate agents, or merge sales information with data mining from analysis firm Business Objects .

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Most recently, King was a prominent part of the network's 2014 Election Night in America coverage offering insight and analysis throughout the evening.

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That's when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched a network of 50 specialized laboratories across the country for state-of-the-art analysis of samples from infected patients.

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