At a time when balance sheets are tight, Bansal says companies are eager to parse data and come up with more efficient systems.

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To do this they need to do far more than monitor and engage, they need to be able to parse meaningful data and insights from a growing sphere of what is all too often largely irrelevant data.

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Set up a crawler that can scrape some webpages and parse some basic data.

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Check out the source below to parse the granular bits of privacy data on display.

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It was not easy but he was able to use cutting-edge technologies to scan huge amounts of data as well as parse natural language queries.

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It competes based on its ability to parse a problem across thousands of processors, race through its massive data reserves, evaluate a near-infinite number of options, make the relevant correlations, narrow the possibilities and arrive at what it identifies as the highest-probability correct answer.

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Use either one to chart data on an iPhone, share it with a social network, and parse results with a variety of downloadable apps.

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