data set

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Google said its accompanying flash flood prediction tool, trained on the flood data set, is able to anticipate the weather events in a way that wasn’t possible before.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

Vanda Research, which has a proprietary data set that tracks retail investors’ buying and selling in popular stocks and ETFs, found that retail buying in a handful of crude-oil ETFs has soared.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 11, 2026

"This is the largest data set ever assembled for Tyrannosaurus rex," says Holly Woodward, a professor of anatomy at Oklahoma State University who led the research effort.

From Science Daily • Mar. 5, 2026

A separate data set from Bank of America proves the point.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 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