data point

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a single fact or piece of information; a datum: Other data points, such as crime statistics, are available from the state government.

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Origin of data point

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby data point

dataflow architecture, datal, data mining, data packet, data pen, data point, data processing, data protection, datary, data science, data scientist

How to use data point in a sentence

That index combines dozens of individual data points — including family structure, parental behaviors, social ties, political engagement, trust in institutions, crime and charitable giving — to assess social capital at the county level.
Researchers identify social factors inoculating some communities against coronavirus|Christopher Ingraham|February 11, 2021|Washington Post
What it’s looking for are data points predicting traits that don’t correlate with race or gender but do distinguish successful employees.
Auditors are testing hiring algorithms for bias, but there’s no easy fix|Amy Nordrum|February 11, 2021|MIT Technology Review
Another data source showed a slight rebound in domestic seed rounds, but it was a rare positive data point.
Are SAFEs obscuring today’s seed volume?|Alex Wilhelm|February 9, 2021|TechCrunch
For the numerous for-profit tenant screening companies and the landlords who pay them for background checks on potential renters, those data points told a simple story, one that’s enough to bar Walston from accessing future housing opportunities.
The stimulus relieved short-term pain, but eviction’s impact is a long haul|Kyle Swenson|February 8, 2021|Washington Post

You see, behind every tweet, like and retweet, there is a series of data points that helps Twitter understand things like just how people are using the service, and what type of content they might want to see.
Twitter expands Google Cloud partnership to ‘learn more from data, move faster’|Mary Ann Azevedo|February 4, 2021|TechCrunch
The citizens of Stevens Point defeated fluoridation by a healthy margin.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
Deep, situational, and emotional jokes based on what is relevant and has a POINT!
Trolls and Martyrdom: Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie|Arthur Chu|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
To borrow an old right-wing talking point, these people are angry no matter what we do.
Harry Shearer on The Dangerous Business of Satire|Lloyd Grove|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Therefore, it is not possible for any F-35 schedule to include a video data link or infrared pointer at this point.
Pentagon Misfires in Stealth Jet Scandal|Dave Majumdar|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
But the most important point I want to make is about what the press does now.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Our Duty Is to Keep Charlie Hebdo Alive|Ayaan Hirsi Ali|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
His also was the intellectual point of view, and the intellectual interest in knowledge and its deductions.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor
Judged from this point of view only, the elasticity provided by the new law is doubtless adequate.
Readings in Money and Banking|Chester Arthur Phillips
That is the only point in which one sees Liszt's sense of his own greatness; otherwise his manner is remarkably unassuming.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
When we speak against one capital vice, we ought to speak against its opposite; the middle betwixt both is the point for virtue.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou