The computer with its enormous library of data culled from millions of minds had offered her a way to explore the issue Bickel had raised, and she could not resist this.

The Breakaway Brands list is based on data culled from the proprietary BrandAsset Valuator and is regularly cited in business publications including Fortune magazine and Forbes.

Even if all those hurdles can be cleared, the end results need to be in a format that's easy to interpret and compact, with extraneous data culled and random variability compensated for.

The trade group's data, culled from the records of savings and loan associations, commercial banks and mortgage companies, showed that in the Northeast, foreclosures increased from 0.76 to 1.11 percent of all loans outstanding.

There was one other surprise hidden in the data culled from wealthy family accounts - and it is one that may prove nasty for future negotiations between Wall Street and the Old Money crowd.

Visa USA said preliminary data, culled from spending by its cardholders, supported its forecast that holiday sales would increase 7.5 percent this year, compared with an 8.3 percent increase last year.

We need to integrate the visual observations of well-trained security personnel with data culled from law enforcement databases.

Some schools also hire private companies to screen and rate their alumni using demographic and life-style data culled from Federal census summaries and private surveys.

The study based its findings on data culled from lawsuits, police sting operations and racial testing over the last 14 years.

They are contrasted with secondary sources, which are data got at second hand; i.e. sets of data culled from other people's original data.