It is possible, I suppose, to launch Big Data analysis with no stories, and to be on the outlook for analytical results that support two apparently conflicting ones.

FORBES: Meeting the Big Data challenge: DON'T be objective

But to keep the tribes at bay, they were forced to launch a big military operation on the frontier almost every year for the next half-century.

ECONOMIST: Waziristan

But it's not enough to launch a big offensive.

BBC: Who's in charge? Sorting out Libya's rebel armies