61.   A competitive utility market has made many electrical companies reluctant to part with statistics for fear the data will be used by competitors.

62.   About the best a person can hope for in a situation like this is the ability to continue to use data compressed by DoubleSpace.

63.   Additionally, executives can improve inventory reporting in their companies by actually using the data for important decisions.

64.   After the harvest, the data can be used to generate a map showing yields in various parts of the field.

65.   Businesses often use census data to determine where to locate manufacturing plants and stores.

66.   Businesses use the data to plot expansion and investment.

67.   But further development of the measure has stalled because some members of Congress worry that such data might be used against the oil and mining industries.

68.   But Gomez also uses the data to produce short-term analyses of trends in various Internet retail markets, like online computer retailing or bookselling.

69.   But in the end, Jupiter and other firms say they use the data mainly to point up trends.

70.   But many other AOL Time Warner divisions, such as the magazine and direct marketing subsidiaries, use consumer data more aggressively.