cruncher
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5.1
- noun
- /ˈkrʌnʧər/
- Specialized
:
analista de datos (persona)
- Secondly, all their pundits and number crunchers made that clear with their election coverage.
- a number cruncher
Examples
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But there are a whole slew of number crunchers, Nate Silver being only one of them, who are coming to similar conclusions.
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Here to tell you how it happened is professional number cruncher, Miss Natalie Certain.
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Start with The New York Times' number cruncher Nate Silver.
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You're the most productive number cruncher in your unit.
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For those lazy people like me, you number crunchers are our gurus.
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The best predictions did not come from the partisans; they came from the number crunchers who took a hard look at what the polls and economic data had to say.
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In an election season dominated by names like Gallup, Rasmussen, and Nate Silver, the Romney number crunchers had their own methods.
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As an expert data cruncher, he can analyze thousands of records in just a few minutes.
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She works as a number cruncher at a financial firm, handling complex data sets daily.
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The new software is a powerful cruncher that can process big data more efficiently than ever.
Synonyms
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5.5
A very powerful computer that does many calculations very quickly for science and engineering
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4.5
A person who works with many numbers and can do difficult calculations using computers
Compounds
- Informal
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4.5
A person who works with many numbers and can do difficult calculations using computers
How Fast
- Specialized
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5.5
- Specialized
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5.1
- Archaic
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cruncher comes from crunch plus -er and grew from the phrase 'to crunch the numbers', where crunch means to work quickly and hard on numbers; so a cruncher is a person or device that processes large amounts of data fast.