But the digital nature of that data makes it much easier to sift through and analyze than, say, a bunch of files packed in cardboard boxes.

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To a sabermetrician, Justin Verlander is a fascinating subject to study and intimately analyze through complex calculations and permutations.

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Through a Web interface, the worker can retrieve data from a database, automatically load the data into a spreadsheet and pivot through the data to analyze it by part and type of problem.

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Five sessions explore in various ways the extraordinary potential for the transformation of business and how we live through our growing ability to aggregate and analyze vast data sets on just about anything.

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In the equivalent of two and a half workdays, that examiner must analyze the application and then search through all the existing documents in that field to find any instances of prior art (see " In the path of an avalanche").

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"We did a two-year traffic study to analyze exactly how every single vehicle moves through Manhattan, " she says about her decision to create the Times Square pedestrian plaza.

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For women going through a divorce or just thinking about it, we analyze both the short- and long-term financial and tax implications of various divorce settlement options in order to help our clients secure their financial future.

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So these are thought-through proposals that we believe, and we believe others will analyze, have direct positive impact on the economy and on jobs in the short term.

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Through this approach, IBM helped a Danish windpower company build and use a Big Data solution to analyze weather data.

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