Finally, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms weighs in with strict rules on transporting and storing the motors and prohibitions on the most powerful fuels like cyclotrimethylene trinitramine, the stuff that propels military missiles (see box).

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But empowering end users is just one step in an end-to-end analytics value chain, which consists of cleaning data, storing it, preparing it for analysis, monitoring data for key events as it arrives, capturing knowledge in rules-based playbooks, delivering subsets to those who need it, and giving them the tools to analyze it.

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