Politico's big-picture analysis had all the classic features of a game-changing overview.

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Big-picture analysis such as this is very seductive in its simplicity, but if you move from your view at 35, 000 feet up to 75, 000 feet, an even broader view may lead you to different conclusions.

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The two then subjected the picture to extensive paint analysis.

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There are many interesting Elliott Wave patterns along the way, and these are illustrated below, but we should start with a bigger picture with a little Fibonacci analysis.

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Additionally, the TV's picture engine employs multi-frame analysis to help create missing resolution, and Sony's Super Bit Mapping technology incorporates 14 bit up-scaling, processing and pixel mapping to smooth gradation and improve the quality of low-tone pictures.

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Do an overlap analysis to get a true picture of your diversification.

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This time, in an analysis stretching to less than 500 words of picture postcard based on "my annual visit to the family home in East Lothian", McWilliams is comparing Scotland's economic growth rates with those of Spain, Greece, Portugal, Korea, Poland and Turkey.

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The picture was identified as a Mozart portrait when an expert on the composer used computer analysis to compare it with another painted 13 years earlier.

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The study paints a picture of a business environment in which access to information is more distributed, data analysis skills are more common, and tools to manage and analyze large sets of data are more pervasive.

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