How to Use data processing in a Sentence

data processing

noun
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  • The bureau is currently in the data processing phase of the 2020 census.
    — Mike Schneider, Star Tribune, 23 Mar. 2021
  • The study in question presents a new data processing technique and does not support the argument that warming has slowed over the last 20 years.
    — Kate S. Petersen, USA TODAY, 10 June 2022
  • Many of the houses that surround the former EDS campus were built on land that was once part of the data processing firm’s Dallas headquarters, which was built on the site of an old golf course.
    — Dom Difurio, Dallas News, 11 Aug. 2021
  • That forced Census Bureau experts to compress five months of data processing into two and a half months.
    — New York Times, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Daimler and Bosch picked high-tech data processing company Nvidia as a key supplier for the project.
    — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 10 July 2018
  • Most of the new jobs were in fields like software, data processing and internet publishing.
    — Matthew Haag, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2020
  • This is likely to benefit the growth rate of data processing and services revenues.
    — Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • Newsom promised a long-term solution to improve the data processing statewide.
    — Chronicle Staff, SFChronicle.com, 12 Aug. 2020
  • The updated list includes data processing, speech and text recognition — the kind of tech that experts say is used by TikTok.
    — Brian Fung and Selina Wang, CNN, 14 Sep. 2020
  • Aside from data processing and technical work, the actual counting takes place in three stages.
    — The Economist, 15 Aug. 2020
  • The other way to resurrect a long dead language is through basic data processing.
    — Benjamin Plackett, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The company’s founder, Craig Pettit, previously worked in data processing and has been fixing and flipping homes as a side gig for more than a decade.
    — Dallas News, 30 Jan. 2023
  • That dip is even more pronounced because of recent backlogs in data processing.
    — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Oct. 2021
  • The new peak for the state comes after case counts had started to trend down toward the end of last week, though the low numbers during that time were likely due to delays in data processing, according to ADPH.
    — Ramsey Archibald | [email protected], al, 11 June 2020
  • Anyone concerned about how a vendor might share data can pull up its data processing agreement, Healy notes.
    — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Once the campaign is completed and the data processed, NOAA plans to publish the finding in scientific journals and make the data publicly available.
    — Jason Samenow, Washington Post, 11 July 2018
  • Moore’s law was the foundation for the rapid rise of businesses based on electronic data processing, from PayPal to Amazon to Facebook.
    — Vaclav Smil, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Michelin and her colleagues used XRF spectroscopy and a host of data processing tools to map the ratio of certain elements (such as copper-to-iron or zinc-to-iron) within the inks used to write, and later redact, the letters.
    — Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 Nov. 2021
  • But other astronomers are skeptical of the team’s data processing.
    — Nadia Drake, National Geographic, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The original draft bill in 2018 had stronger guardrails around data processing in the service of national security.
    — Megha Mandavia, WSJ, 2 Dec. 2022
  • With the help of computing advances that make data processing easier, the satellite fleets may soon be able to detect daily or even hourly surface changes at just about every patch of ground on Earth.
    — Julia Rosen, Science | AAAS, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Boulder’s small camera system is designed for edge computing, the catch-all term for data processing that is done on-site rather than at a faraway data center.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, Wired, 10 Aug. 2020
  • The data processing system’s firewall, CrowdStrike, blocked the hack from advancing.
    — Adam Ferrise, cleveland, 21 May 2023
  • The council is leaning on a law from the 1980s that transfers authority over purchasing and data processing from the commissioners to the council.
    — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2020
  • In theory, any data processed by the JIT compiler could be vulnerable to the attack; researchers simply used a photo as a proof of concept.
    — Shannon Liao, The Verge, 14 Nov. 2018
  • All course monitoring is done by electronic marshals via closed-circuit cameras and state-of-the art data processing.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 1 Dec. 2021
  • Having the infrastructure in place to manage data processing is critical to the success of business.
    — Daniel Newman, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The Trump administration then came up with another plan to end data collection a month early and cut the time for data processing by almost half.
    — Mike Schneider, Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The shutdown isolated all voice and 5G data processing elements from the wireless towers and switching elements, preventing these services from being available.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 23 July 2024
  • Apple has also bought about two dozen AI start-ups in the past 10 years, focused on the application of AI reasoning to image and video recognition, data processing, search capabilities and music content curation.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2024

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