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"the hardest single thing is that even if you have the desire, which you may or may not have, to be data driven, that the existing systems…I never would have thought this before I started working with companies. I never would have imagined that it is an I.T. problem that you simply cannot get the data you want, and the data are held in 27 different data sets that have different identifiers... trying to just put together a data set to do a basic analysis that I think many listeners would think, 'wow I would think that a big, fancy company would be able to do this with the push of a button.'... "The I.T. support and the complexity in these big firms blows your mind about how hard it is to do the littlest, simple things." says Steven Levitt.

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