At the end of the day this is all about equipping you with skills and knowledge and understanding with which to take a problem, take a large data set maybe and actually produce something useful-- produce a project that is of interest to you.

下午放学后,就用学到的技能，知识和理解力来,解决问题，或者处理超大数据集,或制造一些有用的东西-,例如发起一个你们感兴趣的项目。

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One can be called the information-as-data understanding, which largely sees information as a quantity or commodity to be stored, transmitted, used, and of course defended.

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If this is more than an artifact of the data, understanding why this is happening may point the way to better policies.

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Translate that as: If you aggregate textual data from all social sources you have a better set of data for understanding what drives sales.

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