Smart advertising and relentless data-crunching fuel this lean company.
You can say they undermine their heroine's story of relentless, patient data crunching by leaving the impression — a false one, according to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee — that waterboarding played a crucial role in getting Osama.
A 2007 report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, titled "Beating the Odds at Atlanta's Parks Middle School," attributed its unlikely progress, in part, to its "relentless focus on data".
In an era of scripted teaching, yearly standardized tests and relentless attention to data collection, Dr. Greene would seem to be a relic of little interest.
And so far, Mr. Mulgrew has staked out many of the same positions as Ms. Weingarten, offering cautious praise for some of Chancellor Joel I. Klein's changes to the system, but criticizing his "relentless focus on data at the expense of everything else".
So leaving no possible test point unexplored, the educators at the Harlem Success Academy, a fast-growing chain of four charter schools known for a relentless emphasis on data, have invented a form of test preparation.
The dominant theme of the discussion, in which jobs and taxes came up only in passing, seemed to be the larger breakdown of civil society — the disappearance of common courtesy, the relentless stream of data from digital devices, the proliferation of lawsuits and the insidious influence of media on their children.
As we now know, the relentless focus on data at APS contributed to the climate in which the cheating occurred.
A 2007 report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, titled "Beating the Odds at Atlanta's Parks Middle School," attributed the remarkable progress achieved by the school to its "relentless focus on data".
There seems to be an unspoken recognition that in our relentless focus on data-based coaching and science there is a danger that an entire system has become blinded to the impact on the athletes concerned.
But when they get any traction, Google is excellent at pushing them uphill, bit by bit, year by year, with a relentless tide of data-driven iterations, all the way to the top of the mountain.
