"oceans of data" is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a large amount of data, usually with a figurative implication of vastness. For example, "Thanks to technological advances, we now have access to oceans of data."
Rather, it's like a third eye opening onto the information realm – a gaze overlooking the Earth's oceans of data.
It is a subtle and engaging distillation of oceans of data.
Simulating the way waves behave as they make landfall means taking account of, literally, oceans of data.
While she worked the phones and racked up the miles, he sat in his converted barn in Vermont, surfing oceans of data.
Institutes manage vast budgets, operate huge, hi-tech labs and call upon armies of graduate students to sift for evidence in great oceans of data.
And the platforms are generating oceans of data from smartphones, sensors and other devices.These platforms are vast spaces of digital opportunity.
So these are just four waves in an ocean of data.
In the metaphor favored by a research project called Endeavour, centered at the University of California's Berkeley campus, people will feel like fish submerged in an ocean of data.
Even two decades ago, in the days of kilobytes and floppy discs, such an ocean of data would have been far more difficult to capture and carry away.
The balance between the power for good of this infinite ocean of data – benignly represented by the man in front of me – and the awful potential of its misuse clearly troubles Schmidt.
Creating a little bit of heaven for classical music geeks, the New York Philharmonic has put online an ocean of data about its concerts, dating back to the first one on Dec. 7, 1842.
