data

alternative D

1. pluralplural of datum

   Holonym: data set

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   These data show that the new policy is not working as intended.

   First from these Data, let us obtain the Breadth of the Glass e z

   1692, William Molyneux, Edmund Halley, Dioptrica nova, London: Benj. Tooke, page 100

   In the past, the CAT bond market has been criticized for lack of investor interest. However, that assessment is now outdated—recent data suggest broad market interest in CAT bonds among institutional investors. Figure A9.8 shows the percentage of new issue volume by investor type in 1999 and 2007. In 1999, insurers and reinsurers were very prominent on both the supply and demand sides of the market and were among the leading investors in the bonds, accounting for 55 percent of the market. If insurers and reinsurers are on both sides of the market, the market cannot be said to have attracted very much new capital into the financing of catastrophic risk. However, by 2007, insurers and reinsurers accounted for only 7 percent of demand, suggesting that substantial external capital has been attracted to the market. Dedicated CAT funds accounted for 55 percent of the market in 2007, and money managers and hedge funds accounted for 36 percent. The declining spreads and increasingly broad market interest in the bonds suggest that the bonds are attractive to investors and are playing an increasingly important role relative to conventional reinsurance.

   2009, J. David Cummins, Olivier Mahul, “CAT Bonds and Other Risk-Linked Securities: State of the Market and Recent Developments”, in Catastrophe Risk Financing in Developing Countries: Principles for Public Intervention (World Bank e-Library), World Bank Publications, →ISBN, page 226

   Synonyms: data points

alternative D

1. collectiveuncountablecomputingA representation of information in a computer (as symbols, quantities, sound, images or videos) which is stored, processed or transmitted in the form of electrical signals, records on magnetic tape or punched cards, etc.

   Data can be sent through email.

2. collectiveuncountableMaterial recorded and known or assumed as facts and used as a basis for reasoning, discussion, or calculation, represented especially in the form of numbers, and usually structured (such as statistics).

   This data shows that X is correlated with Y.

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   Near-synonyms: dataset, data set, data points

   With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get[…]

   1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii

   Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks.

   2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76

   When Hill wrote his history of “dude,” understanding such trends in slang was close to impossible. There simply weren’t enough data. Not so today. To uncover the hidden shape of vocative use, linguists can draw on one of the best datasets the English language has ever had: Twitter.

   2022 July 20, Nikhil Sonnad, Quartz

   Synonyms: dataset, data set, data points

3. abbreviationellipsisuncountablecommunicationsEllipsis of mobile data (“digital information transmitted using the cellular telephone network rather than Wi-Fi”).

   run out of data

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