Instead of going to the library, they took morning day trips to Disney World, the Science Center or Universal Studios, where the families all had passes.

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While coding may not ultimately distinguish data science from other fields, it can provide the universal currency for data science stakeholders.

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But it does make the seemingly universal two-leggedness of aliens in science fiction movies a tad more convincing.

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Fortunately, Japan's Science and Technology Agency has beavered away at this most first-world of problems with its Universal Earphones Project.

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