The vast quantities of information, of high and low quality, has helped fracture our politics and, perversely, degraded the political debate.

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And secondly, given this, would with respect to my health, we have released vast quantities of information and continue to do so.

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These technologies will open new doors to explore how the brain records, processes, uses, stores, and retrieves vast quantities of information, and shed light on the complex links between brain function and behavior.

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Louisiana State Attorney General Charles Foti is trying to force UBS, the Wall Street investment bank, to turn over vast quantities of information on its trading, stock lending and other activities related to shares of software firm Sedona .

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In the 2000s, IT became focused on assembling vast quantities of knowledge and information.

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But a group of biologists led by Eivind Hovig of the Norwegian Radium Hospital in Oslo has managed to find a way to speed the process up, by linking together the vast quantities of disconnected biochemical information that have already been published.

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Semi-structured and unstructured data being generated in vast quantities at network speed are rich sources of information that tell organizations exactly what customers need and want and how or why they buy.

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The value in Big Data is not the ability to capture and store vast and rapidly increasing quantities of data, its value lies in providing companies and organizations real time information that they can act upon and provides insights to their business for competitive advantage.

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