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

Even so, “when he and Russell reran their data set of opinion articles through the current version, the underlying assessments were similar to those in the earlier iteration.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Teske emphasized that the discovery raises as many questions as it answers: "What's really exciting is that this new data set is opening up even more questions than it's answering."

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 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