And this, he suggests, is central to the success of analytics in sport - and successful data analysis in business.
Paul Joyce, the co-founder of GeckoBoard presented his company's hugely successful data visualisation and communications tool for businesses and governments.
As recounted here last week, a successful data backup strategy for personal computers has to be reasonably easy, regular, remote and reliable.
Following in the footsteps of the Obama campaign's highly successful data mining, Ethical Electric sifts through a wide variety of consumer databases "to find people who are interested in our services," Matzzie said.
A successful data scientist will deliver information effectively but also listen to the stakeholder's requirements and really understand what the business problem is first, in order to solve it.
Vavreck noted Obama's successful data campaign relied heavily on voter data to target treated field operations "like a field goal unit: if the race is close, you want to have a good one".
Successful data transmission probabilities of links.
a Successful data receival rate with different CR nodes.
b Successful data receival rate with different PUs. Figure 7 a shows successful data receival rate when the amounts of CR nodes are different.
