How to Use big data in a Sentence

big data

noun
  • In this age of Moneyball and big data, why not look for patterns?
    Adam Bryant, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • Data matters, but there is a whole other reality that has to do with relationships, and big data won’t capture that.
    Recode Staff, Recode, 26 Mar. 2018
  • What is more, the brute-force application of big data, impressive though some of its achievements have been in recent years, is not the only way to get smarter algorithms.
    The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • Big money and bigger data can be irresistible to those itching to turn theory into reality.
    David Ramli, The Seattle Times, 14 Jan. 2018
  • There was still one of the biggest data breaches in recent memory, compliments of UnderArmour.
    Wired Staff, WIRED, 31 Mar. 2018
  • In China, where big data are bigger than anywhere else, privacy is not an issue, and there is no division between commercial research and military needs.
    The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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