Those with alternative agendas may also try to use these new data to rank modern human populations in terms of supposedly different degrees of modernity.

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For the immediately foreseeable future, each successive year is likely to gain rank as the year of massive data breaches, including unintended system breakdowns as well as criminal conspiracies.

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In our new rank based on the most recent short interest data from NASDAQ, J.

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Despite wanting to be among the top ten in North America, it does not even rank in the top 25, according to data from Thomson Financial.

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Its rank fell from No. 28 last year (adjusted for late data) to No. 112.

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He knows this because he has actual data on sales (available from Amazon) and the sales rank, and he knows how to plot a regression line in Excel.

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StatCounter presents its data as is, and even though other counts of world-wide Internet users generally rank China first, the company's reading suggests that China ranks 22nd in the world in Web usage.

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Loughborough - which has a very large student population - does not rank so highly, clocking up a monthly average of just over 3, 000 illegal music downloads, the data indicates.

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One of the easiest ways you can back yourself into that sort of keyword data is to enter in a search term on LinkedIn and review the profiles of the people that rank for that search term.

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Public Citizen, a watchdog group, collated data from the Kaiser Family Foundation in April 2007 to create the only ranking of how Medicare programs rank state by state, the basis for this ranking of the worst places to be sick and poor--that is, the places where it would be worst to get stuck on Medicaid.

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