Videos and questions to stimulate online conversation are also being hosted, alongside useful links and numbers.
So much data is now available, in such vast scope and minute detail, it is no longer useful to look at numbers neatly laid out in two-dimensional columns and rows, says Gurjeet Singh, co-founder and chief executive of Ayasdi Inc.
Some solid numbers would be useful.
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If they are to be remotely useful, they need some reasonable numbers to start with.
Decisions must be unanimous, because numbers can be internationally useful only if all countries assign equivalent values to them.
Results like these show that numbers can prove themselves useful in unexpected places.
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But these extraordinary numbers give you a useful picture of things.
Others suggest that rather than a control device, the material might be useful to get a handle on population numbers.
Not everyone is lucky enough to have a job that involves numbers so it's always useful to have some show business skills to fall back on.
For sure, financial markets are imperfect and founded on the cruel insensitivity of numbers, but this makes them useful tools for vetting BS (we talk about Facebook differently now).
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Comparing raw numbers across generations has never been particularly useful, given the changes in statistical norms from one era to another.
The bottom line is that human beings have brains capable of counting to high numbers and manipulating them, so we use mathematics as a useful tool to describe the world around us.
Research by the university admissions body, UCAS, suggests that large numbers of students currently make their choice of university without any solid or useful consumer-style information about what they are "buying".
Pakistanis have suffered in large numbers at the hands of terrorists, and they have been -- the government has provided useful and important assistance and cooperation to us in the years of this struggle against terrorism.
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