First, the necessary data analysis will be a daunting task, requiring new computational methods.

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Because of the challenges in the analysis, we approach the task of estimating the impact of the Recovery Act from a number of different directions, and supplement our estimates with those of numerous outside analysts.

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This also relieves the human from this tedious task, leaving them to apply higher order professional analysis and insight.

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That team will approach problems in device and task specialization, automation for agility and scalability, analysis of large bodies of data, and interaction between intelligence at the edge and in the datacenter.

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Establishing that collective dominance exists requires extensive market analysis, something critics say is beyond the abilities of the task force given its limited resources and the rigid timetables it imposes.

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While it would be a formidable task to check every study Wagenaar et al. subsumed in their meta-analysis, a quick check to find out whether they included a study with a known systematic bias reveals the study included Chesson et al., a study by the Centers for Disease Control which claimed that increased beer taxes could reduce the rate of gonorrhea.

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Critical Path Analysis tells you that you should begin the longest part of a composite task first, in order to reach the conclusion as soon as possible.

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That calculation is included in a new analysis by the Scottish Government's chief economist, Gary Gillespie, setting out the scale of the task in getting the economy going again.

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