Sentences with phrase «make sense of the numbers»

They're not the only communications pros under pressure to use more measurement in PR and marketing efforts, and technology companies are responding to data overload with apps to help marketers make sense of the numbers.

«We will take pains every quarter to explain the adjustments you need in order to make sense of our numbers,» he wrote.

An illustration might help make sense of the numbers if it's been awhile since you broke out your calculator.

You can't make sense of the numbers if the higher multiples are giving lower valuations.

Trying to make sense of these numbers might seem like a daunting task at first, but with a few clues about what to look for you will be on your way to becoming an «OvaCue expert».

All the investigations in the unit aim to broaden students» understanding of numbers by helping them make sense of numbers.

In general, number sense means that students know how to make sense of numbers, how to use them, and to see relationships among them.

I was just looking at some updated «State Education Reform» statistics from the National Center of Education Statistics and was trying to make sense of the numbers of charter schools in each state.

This article needs a comment from someone that isn't a high achiever to make sense of these numbers.

But since Barkpost has already posted about it and the Richmond SPCA has already posted about it, let's try to make sense of the numbers as PETA has self - reported and spun them.

I just can't make sense of the numbers.

You need to be able to make sense of numbers in order to calculate prices, add up discounts, make change for customers, count inventory, and more.

Professor Heckman and his co-authors Sneha Elango, Jorge Luis Garcia and Andres Hojman provide clarity in Early Childhood Education, a new working paper that makes sense of a number of seemly conflicting research studies on the effectiveness of public investment in early childhood education.

Professor Heckman and his co-authors Sneha Elango, Jorge Luis Garcia and Andres Hojman provide clarity in Early Childhood Education, a new working paper that makes sense of a number of seemly...

Not exact matches

Taking Social Security retirement benefits at 62 only makes sense in a limited number of circumstances, such as if you are single and terminally ill.

The move made plenty of sense, too: Since 2009, two - thirds of Benchmark's investments have been in start - ups within San Francisco, and the firm believes the number may only get higher.

But the other parts are going to make sense to a number of smaller publishers, since it takes costs off the table for them and could result in additional revenue (how much remains to be seen).

Shortly after it closed, BMO Capital Markets mining analyst Edward Sterck told the Northern Miner that choosing mining over retail made sense for the company, given the number and size of diamond mines expected to come on stream over the next few years.

«It makes sense to point to an increase in the number of travelers as one likely reason, but other than that, we have no theories.»

This role — part strategist, creative director, technologist and teacher — is now recognized at the highest levels of management as it's squarely at the intersection between traditional marketing and the growing number of software tools used to make sense of companies» vast amounts of data.

But in realizing this, the numbers need to make sense, as, for Jad Toubayly, co-founder and CEO of Idealz, that is the important bit.

Since this is a percentage question, SAT prep site Get800 recommends substituting numbers in for b and k and playing out all of the answers to see which one makes sense.

Holger Mueller, a principal analyst and vice president of Constellation Research, said that it makes sense for HPE to consider going private given that its number one competitor is Dell, which «has the opportunity to transform itself without the quarterly pressure from the stock markets.»

In some cases, it may make sense to limit your number of holdings.

But there are in fact a number of reasons why it makes sense for the Murdoch family to sell to Disney, right now.

Even if it looks like a bewildering mess of numbers, codes and abbreviations, there's a good reason to learn how to make sense of it.

Tony focuses on whether or not the numbers make sense, takes care of the legal work, patents, contracts, professional business plans and often helps secure funding for many of their projects.

If an IPO really is the goal, Kik's reluctance to disclose its internal valuation makes sense — without a huge number hanging over its head, Kik stands a better chance of a successful share offering.

There are certainly costs associated with borrowing that need to be considered, but if the total dollar cost of the loan enables the business to generate additional profits, it could be a good decision — provided the numbers make sense for your business situation.

It has historically made sense to hedge against market fluctuations based on much less restrictive definitions of market conditions, but at present, the market is in a set of conditions that has almost invariably been followed by deep and abrupt losses, though often only after a further marginal advance over a small number of trading sessions.

«The deal makes a lot of sense for a number of reasons, especially with Amazon's local physical footprint already established on the AWS side of the house,» Ball said in a news statement.

Variable costs will usually be shown as a percentage of revenue, but you'll want to test those numbers to make sure they make sense.

«There was a sense of the realization of being in the thick of production hell with the Model 3, and trying to get these numbers up, otherwise the company is not going to make money, essentially,» she said.

But when a number pops out that makes sense in terms of both theory and empirical evidence, it's legitimate to take note.

Would it make the most sense to adhere to a traditional model, maximizing the number of private offices?

If you were to sell it, would there be other means of allocating those funds to real estate, via REITS or other locations around the US where the numbers still make sense?

It makes much more sense to prepare for a number of potential catastrophes by building a robust emergency fund and retirement nest egg.

Investing before you pay off debt may not make financial sense if you look at the numbers but it's one of the best financial decisions you can make.

This naturally makes sense and there are a number of trading platforms that offer this service to online traders.

Therefore, McDonald's strength in numbers, and Jack in the Box's meal - deal ploy targeted at pot smokers, would appear to make a lot of sense.

Much as I think the expansion has a good deal further to run, I suspect that a significant number of households have chosen a debt level which makes sense in good times, but does not take into account the fact that bad times inevitably will occur at some time or other.

To hold that same - sex marriage is part of the fundamental right to marry, or necessary for giving LGBT people the equal protection of the laws, the Court implicitly made a number of other assumptions: that one - flesh union has no distinct value in itself, only the feelings fostered by any kind of consensual sex; that there is nothing special about knowing the love of the two people whose union gave you life, whose bodies gave you yours, so long as you have two sources of care and support; that what children need is parenting in some disembodied sense, and not mothering and fathering.

I've found a number of students here who respond well to her and say they've never been able to make sense of Christianity before.

Its emphasis on social and communal relationships as the defining element in its religious worldview made it the most attractive option for the growing number of suburban Jews looking for a sense identity and tradition in suburban yenemsvelt.

In some sense, indeed, Kierkegaard's life could be written as a kind of dark comedy; despite his premature death, and a great number of sadnesses that afflicted him along the way, there was something enchantingly absurd about his character, a certain benign perversity that often prompted him to make himself willfully ridiculous, and a peculiarly touching element of the ludicrous that clung to him all the way to his early grave.

Our brains are built to intuitively grasp natural numbers, we need education to learn about zero and the rest, our brains are built to seek refuge from the unexplainable, the unknown holds some danger, so the brain has mechanisms of inventing imaginary supernatural creatures to help make sense of things that are beyond our knowledge and understanding.

Right, numerology makes some sense when your language uses letters as numbers, gematriya - style, but nothing in the Bible would lead you to think it was full of secret messages!

Jeff, while on the surface your comments make sense; however, IF you dig down, and look at the real issues at hand, it is much more often and with much more vehemence, that Christians condemn atheists as «idiots» «heathens» «unclean» and any number of other rather unpleasant names.

A geometrical system is made up of points, lines and diagrams, but in the deeper sense it depends on the type of space (number of dimensions, curvature) in which the system operates.

Others, who also see the situation only as a result of human failure, believe that ministers and schools have been deflected from their purpose and have lost their sense of mission because they have succumbed to the temptation to improve their personal and professional status by doing anything that might make them pleasing to the greatest number of people.