data set
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of data set
1955–60 data set ( def. 2 ); 1970–75 data set ( def. 1 )
Example Sentences
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In one data set, 728 participants received brain scans or biomarker testing during life.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 14, 2026
"It also provides an updated data set to help inform policy decisions and market research," she said.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Mr. Goodspeed’s historical record is, in effect, a training data set, with droughts, strikes, shipping disruptions, credit contractions and policy errors, each tagged by type, geography and sequence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Historically, a few large losses do skew the data set somewhat.
From MarketWatch ● May 23, 2026
What an economist typically has is a data set with a great many variables, none of them randomly generated, some related and others not.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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