The pin and pattern spotting system did less well when it was applied to data gathered when users were walking around with gadgets.

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Good pattern-spotting can lead firms to forsake conventional advertising completely.

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Pattern Recognition: Spotting Comeback Stocks : In 1884 Charles Dow published the very first stock market average composed of closing prices of eleven stocks: nine railroad companies and two manufacturing firms.

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