How to Use big data in a Sentence

big data

noun
  • The figures will be contained in Netflix’s next big data dump, which will come out later this week and feature stats from the first six months of 2024.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 Sep. 2024
  • But the new space era has more to do with big data than big egos.
    Ray Jayawardhana, WSJ, 14 July 2022
  • So, here are some of the big takeaways from Drizzy’s big data dump.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2024
  • What is the big data solution 3 to 5 years from now for EG?
    Teddy Amenabar, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • Now, Beim is on a quest to bring other women out of the dark by bringing big data to the womb.
    Megan Molteni, WIRED, 13 July 2018
  • Still, Gu says, the researchers would like to see their new discs used in big data centers.
    IEEE Spectrum, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Using big data to put cops in the right place at the right time would help discourage crime.
    David Uberti, WSJ, 8 July 2021
  • Big Tech needs a big amount of water to keep big servers in their big data centers cool.
    David Lynch, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2021
  • In an effort to further reduce crime, the LAPD has turned to big data.
    Taylor Mooney, CBS News, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Among the themes that appeal to him are big data and machine learning.
    Conrad De Aenlle, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2018
  • As things stand, most of it accrues to the big data distilleries.
    The Economist, 7 July 2018
  • With big data to crunch and nowhere for miscreants to hide, perhaps top-down rule can at last be made to work.
    The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • In this age of Moneyball and big data, why not look for patterns?
    Adam Bryant, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • But please understand that this is about the right data, not big data.
    Aarron Spinley, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • That book is about a big data company that is out of control.
    Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic, 22 May 2018
  • Before the era of big data and text mining, what would evidence for such a claim even look like?
    Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 27 Oct. 2019
  • And big data could be processed in real time, avoiding the delays of Hadoop.
    Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Looks like the internet (or at least big data based on the internet) agrees.
    Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Have you guys already gotten to the limits of insights from big data?
    Teddy Amenabar, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • Klara and the Sun just accepts a world in which big data, algorithms, these things have become so much part of our lives.
    Will Knight, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The last big data release of 2021, published Wednesday, shows why.
    Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The new forecasts are based on government statistics, the first glimpse of the reopening process and new big data sources, the bank said.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 13 May 2020
  • Learn more about small-to-big data in citizen science. Cheers!
    Eva Lewandowski, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Careers in big data are booming and the pace isn’t expected to slow down anytime soon.
    Virginia Tech, The Seattle Times, 19 Sep. 2017
  • In fact, big data powers much of our modern-day business.
    Nick Dearden, Forbes, 5 Jan. 2022
  • But a lot of times there's a lot of hype to big data as opposed to having a real source, say, on the Chinese Politburo or some key source in the Kremlin.
    CBS News, 15 Dec. 2021
  • Along the way, he's pioneered new technologies in crowdsourcing and big data that have been used around the globe.
    Bruna Bortolato, National Geographic, 28 Feb. 2018
  • There are many types of AI that can be leased without needing to hire a programmer or messing with big data.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Video games might also have bigger data-usage spikes than movies or TV.
    Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 12 June 2019
  • For one thing, one landlord can’t get 16 million data points that are updated every night and crunch it through a big data algorithm.
    Whizy Kim, Vox, 6 Sep. 2024

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