dataset

noun

da·​ta·​set ˈdā-tə-ˌset 

ˈda-,

 also  ˈdä-

variants or less commonly data set

plural datasets also data sets

: a collection of data taken from a single source or intended for a single project

analyzed the dataset

If you're using a public dataset, make sure the data comes from a reliable source …

—Ben Dickson

The company is also … continuing to build its own dataset to improve its machine learning models.

—Alexandra S. Levine

Since AIs need a data set to learn and recognize patterns, one major worry artists have is that their artwork is being used for AI learning, raising concerns of copyright infringement.

—Daniel Salcedo Rubio

Examples of dataset in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For example, proprietary algorithms built on private biometric datasets that power commercial neurofeedback headsets. —Oshan Jarow, Vox, 7 June 2024

This process was repeated many times, with the classifier repeatedly evaluated against a test dataset until its performance satisfied us. —Casey Sackett, IEEE Spectrum, 26 May 2024

This raises questions about how to appropriately weight sample data — that is, how to adjust survey datasets to account for differences between the sample population and the overall population — to reflect who is most likely to actually vote in November. —Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 30 May 2024

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley stumbled upon an unusual dataset that someone had left on Roboflow, a site run by a U.S. company that allows people to host machine learning data and models. —Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1958, in the meaning defined above