data set

American  

[dey-tuh-set] / ˈdeɪ təˌsɛt /

Or dataset

noun

Computers.

1. a collection of data records for computer processing.

2. (not in technical use) modem.

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data set British  

noun

1. computing another name for file 1

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Etymology

Origin of data set

1955–60 data set ( def. 2 ); 1970–75 data set ( def. 1 )

Example Sentences

On average, there were almost 2,600 patients in EDs across Northern Ireland per day in December, with fresh data set to be published later that will show the full extent of the issue.

From BBC

A shortcoming of private data is that it reflects what a company such as Indeed or ADP happens to have on hand in the course of its business, not a data set constructed to represent the entire economy.

From The Wall Street Journal

My research team and I assembled a data set tracking the genre’s diffusion from the late 1980s onward.

From The Wall Street Journal

“But something like the billion dollar disasters data set is key data that many people rely on across different sectors, from nonprofit organizations like ours that have used it for years and years as a communications tool, to the insurance industry that looks to that data set to try to get a handle on the scale of the losses from climate and weather-related events over time.”

From Salon

The data below is gleaned from the VandaTrack proprietary data set, which uses custom models to identify retail trades in silver-linked ETFs.

From MarketWatch