Analysis in a sentence as a noun

All those blog posts we write were we crawl the web and do analysis based on the data?

It was Palantir Finance, and it was built for use at hedge funds and financial houses as a quant analysis platform for traders.

For example, in eastern Wyoming, an analysis showed that \n it would cost half a million dollars to construct a water \n well into deep, but high-quality aquifer reserves.

That is the purpose of writing a 10-page critical analysis of a theme in a Shakespeare play, or building a toy memory allocator: not because knowing Shakespeare or being able to write malloc is important, but because it teaches students to think and analyze.

However, in the immediately previous paragraph, he noted:> one employee spied on a spouseSo much for automated analysis, besides not being able to filter out US citizens' data it can't even filter out an employee's direct family.

If you aren't familiar with this activity, it has some pretty outrageous elements--300 wpm speed-reading, often surface-level analysis, and preference for gamesmanship over quality of argumentation.

[edit: The more I stare at this, the more confident I am in this analysis; specifically, the packets that are "about" and "almost exactly" the same size are very deterministic: the packets to/from Apple are precisely 7 bytes larger than the corresponding packets to/from the Chinese server.

Thousands of boxes of documents were assembled with lawyers and paralegals being tasked to go through each document mindlessly summarizing it on a "digest sheet," with the results ultimately to be compiled into an omnibus analysis report that could in turn be used by competing experts to attempt to rebut the absurdities of the original report.

Thousands of hours of billable time racked up and this process was maybe 10 or 15% done when I decided to do a very careful analysis of a relatively few key documents only, to put the story in a context that readily demonstrated the sham nature of the "delay damages report," to summarize everything in a 50-page write-up, and to give that to the partner in charge.

Analysis definitions

noun

an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole

noun

the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations

noun

a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed

noun

the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'

noun

a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation

noun

a set of techniques for exploring underlying motives and a method of treating various mental disorders; based on the theories of Sigmund Freud; "his physician recommended psychoanalysis"

See also: psychoanalysis