The same application had 750 ways of sorting data involving dates, all of them potentially troublesome.

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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.

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Then there is the challenge of collecting and sorting through the data.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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