Even when a business, breaking the pattern, attaches a value to its customers' wasted time, it's chintzy.

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Today, Apigee announced the launch Apigee Insights, a platform for capturing and operationalizing signals gathered from big data, contextual data, and interactions intermediated by APIs. (Apigee has published an e-book explaining the platform.) But the core vision of the product is based on an advanced pattern for big data value creation that will be applicable to many industries.

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Sure, they may remember a few items, but if you are discussing a process or a pattern, the details about the value or necessity of what you wrote may be forgotten over time.

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Other researchers suggest that the best way to get an alien's attention is to send it a significant numeric pattern, perhaps prime numbers or the value of Pi.

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History tells us that the value of the dollar relative to developed markets is a cyclical pattern.

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This follows a pattern identified in a graduate jobs survey last week which showed the value placed by employers on work experience.

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