The same application had 750 ways of sorting data involving dates, all of them potentially troublesome.
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It was produced each month by many hundreds of finance, product management, and information technology people who spent thousands of hours collecting, assessing, analyzing, reconciling, and sorting the data.
There were limitations in what could be analyzed, due to the inflexibility of data warehouses and relational databases, but the process for cleansing, sorting and analyzing data was well understood as a complete cycle.
Then there is the challenge of collecting and sorting through the data.
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They're handing them out in Redmond, according to one mildly injured researcher, after breaking a data sorting record Yahoo set in 2009.
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By sorting through its own data, LinkedIn knows that computer engineers migrate back and forth between New York and San Francisco a fair amount.
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One of the biggest challenges these prospective applicants will face is sorting through law school data and rankings which are oftentimes misleading.
The real value is provided by companies that can make big data collection sorting and interrogation as simple as possible so that IT is no longer the bottleneck.
While it rarely prevents the FTC from getting the data or sorting out the issues, the process can take longer than the eight months it took the FTC to review and approve this deal.
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And then cognitive computers capable of learning and sorting information will make sense of the waves of data and give us knowledge and capabilities we never thought possible.
They studied the data on the top 1, 000 stocks according to market value from 1968 to 2008, sorting the stocks each month into five portolios from least risky to riskiest.
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