mega-data

A form of megadata — Extremely large collections of electronically-stored data.

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Meanings

nounmega-data (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of megadata.

    In an era of mega-data the balance between privacy and national security has caused problems both for private industry and governments.

    2014, Robert H. Schram, Worldwide Human Corruption
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    Anyone who finds Data Warehouse Project Management has found for themselves a veritable gold mine, a wealth of wisdom and experience from some real pros who have been there and done that ”from the early days of stored programming devices and transaction automation to the latter days of mega-data devices and knowledge manipulation.

    2000, Sid Adelman, Larissa Terpeluk Moss, Data Warehouse Project Management, page xxiii

    Measurement of the statistical reproducibility between biological experiment replicates is vital first step of the entire series of bioinformatics analysis for mining meaningful biological discovery from mega-data.

    2013, Jian Pei, Vincent S. Tseng, Longbing Cao, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, page 301
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