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

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

But this new data set tells a different story.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt