data set

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"Over the last 30 years, we've been collecting bathing water samples once a week through the summer and that long-term data set gives you the best idea of where is safest to swim."

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

“It’s difficult to characterize these results as meaningfully differentiated from Orfo or oral Wegovy until we get a more robust data set for aleniglipron,” wrote the RBC analyst.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

A separate public data set on Medicaid billings recently released by CMS contained less detailed data and didn’t account for errors such as duplicative records that the Journal removed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 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

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