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- noun Plural form of
datapoint .
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Examples
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We also analyzed the data for the men in the sample and the same wave and found that the race group differences for the males was just significant (Pearson's Chi-Square=21.2, DF=12, p = .048), with males showing a slightly higher overall attractiveness rating than the other ethnicities (Note: this result is not statistically sound though as it does not take into account dependency of the datapoints due to the use of the same raters).
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.: Black Women Are Not (Rated) Less Attractive!: Independent Analysis of the Add Health Dataset Ph.D. Scott Barry Kaufman 2011
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Nick saw the street as looming walkups and parked cars, but to James it was a seething mass of lines connecting objects and boxes containing datapoints; an infinite number of rabbit holes he could plumb for details ad infinitum.
365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010
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A few of the datapoints aren't mapping correctly - but this may be a problem with the data.
Wikileaks Iraq: data journalism maps every death Simon Rogers 2010
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We also analyzed the data for the men in the sample and the same wave and found that the race group differences for the males was just significant (Pearson's Chi-Square=21.2, DF=12, p = .048), with males showing a slightly higher overall attractiveness rating than the other ethnicities (Note: this result is not statistically sound though as it does not take into account dependency of the datapoints due to the use of the same raters).
Scott Barry Kaufman, Ph.D.: Black Women Are Not (Rated) Less Attractive!: Independent Analysis of the Add Health Dataset Ph.D. Scott Barry Kaufman 2011
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Why go through the effort of generating a chart for 4 measly datapoints — and then not even bother to label one of the axes?
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Nevertheless, one of the few datapoints informing how Sotomayor views detainee cases, her 2003 speech, suggests her views are to the right of the justice she will replace.
Wonk Room » On Detainees, Sotomayor Stood To The Right Of Souter 2009
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I believe Medicus DID explain their methods of obtaining the datapoints … it was a survey … sent out by mail … much like the census … which is what I discussed last night … remember?
Think Progress » Fox ‘News’ cheerleads for Tea Party protesters. 2010
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But once you get a whole bunch of datapoints, you can begin to draw conclusions.
Matthew Yglesias » Vancouver Suffering From Snow Shortage 2010
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It is believed that life forms exist in the private economy, but they do so as datapoints inside the White House Office of Management and Budget.
Obama's Two Economies Daniel Henninger 2011
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But, of course, evolution grew in exactly the opposite manner: many, many datapoints grew into a unified explanation, so even if they were to successfully show a problem with the definition of evolution, it would merely mean that the defintion is a flawed description of the explanation, not that the explanation, supported as it is by so many individual examples, is itself flawed.
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