data set
Example Sentences
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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
SpaceX will be the next name in that data set.
From Barron's • May 22, 2026
"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
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
