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For example, despite investing in IT for decades, on a 7-point scale, the companies in the sample scored 4.66 on data quality, 4.21 on usability and 3.76 and intelligence.
FORBES: Does Better Data Lead To Better Corporate Performance?
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In the sample of roughly 4, 300 ballots, or 1% of the vote, election department workers put aside about 500 "questionable" ballots for the commissioners' scrutiny.
FORBES: Hand Recount May Tip Election To Gore
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He has 14 days to request a 'B' sample and until 4 November to respond to the charges, and has pulled out of the Asian Games, citing injury.
BBC: Welsh boxer McGoldrick may earn late Commonwealth gold
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CNN's estimate of the number of Democrats in the voting age population as a whole indicates the sample is about 3 to 4 points more Democratic than the population as a whole, but also about 2 to 3 points more Republican than the population as a whole.
CNN: Poll: Debate watchers say Obama wins
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The really surprising news was the 24.4% of the sample sans a debit card.
FORBES: Consumers' Debit Card Spending Patterns: Reactions to Bank of America and the "Law of Unintended Consequences"?
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So while the median damage from Category 5 storms has been only somewhat larger in dollar terms than from weaker Category 4 hurricanes, the sample size of the fiercest storms is too small to be useful.
WSJ: Few Precedents to Help Predict Hurricane Damage
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And based on this sample, the survey projected that 1.4 million people believed they had missed promotion because of weaknesses with literacy and numeracy.
BBC: NEWS | UK | Education | Poor basic skills 'costing firms'
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Nearly 7 percent of all traffic in the current-year sample size is mobile, up from 3.4 percent in the first half of 2010.
FORBES: Technology Adds Routes To The Recruitment Roadmap
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Sample sizes in each country ranged from 700 in Japan to more than 4, 000 in India.
CNN: Social networking booming in Egypt, Russia, survey finds
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The UKBA based its decision to revoke the university's Tier 4 highly trusted sponsor status mainly on the examination of 101 sample cases.
BBC: London Met wins back foreign student licence
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Specifically, the most data-driven companies had 4% higher productivity and 6% higher profits than the average in our sample, all else being equal.
WSJ: What Makes a Company Good at IT?