In 1995 the CIA held a contest to see who could compile the most data about Burundi.

1995年，中央情报局举办了一场比赛，看谁能收集到关于布隆迪的最多数据。

youdao

Unlike most surveys, which can go on for months and take years to compile the data, analysis of the Cricket Crawl will happen in real time.

往往大多数的调查会花费数月的时间，而编辑这些数据会花费数年的时间。而蟋蟀的调查会实时地完成。

youdao

Since 2005 the police have taken the problem seriously enough to compile data. The number of cases peaked in 2009, at 401.

自2005年警方开始足够重视这一问题并编制数据资料以来，这一行为的数量在2009年达到顶峰——401起。

youdao

The team has now used these data to compile the largest catalogue of the central concentration of stars in the Milky Way ever created.

ENGADGET: 9-gigapixel image of the Milky Way reminds us just how small we truly are

The latest effort reconciles the differences among dozens of earlier measurements and includes new data to compile an estimate that is believed to be twice as accurate as previous ones, according to researchers involved.

WSJ: Polar Ice Sheets Melt at Faster Pace

This one comes from a paper, delivered at a NBER conference last month, on the supply dynamics of the housing boom and bust. (A hat tip goes to Benjamin Keys.) The authors crunched census data to compile the compounded annual growth rates of the population, smoothed out over five years.

FORBES: Connect