Sentence examples for data are spotty from inspiring English sources

Data are spotty; definitions vary.

Though data are spotty for this year, the number of such incidents is on track to approach 100 million.

Plus, he sees room for lots more data — while Foursquare has data about 105 million points of interest and Google has 100 million, Meech estimates that there are more than 1 billion POIs across the world, many of them in developing nations where the data is more spotty.

Data for Africa are spotty but the continent's biggest economy, South Africa, is in recession.

"The data are very spotty," said William R. Cline, who has studied capital flight for the Institute of International Economics in Washington.

The resulting data are extremely spotty, making it difficult for scientists to accurately predict the location of seeps, their flow rates, or where pollution will occur, Sawyer says.

The available data on house calls are spotty at best.

But as with many uncommon illnesses, particularly those involving pregnancy, the data available is spotty.

"There's some data from Florida that suggests it can be effective where Aedes aegypti mosquitos are primarily outdoor breeders," he said, "but from my data, it was spotty".

So if you live in a part of the country where AT&T's 3G data network is spotty, you can now supplement that coverage with AT&T's WiFi network.

The data has been spotty enough that policymakers could want more consistency.