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[band] DATA were an electronic music band created in the late 1970s by Georg Kajanus, creator of such bands as Eclection, Sailor and Noir (with Tim Dry of the robotic/music duo Tik and Tok). After the break-up of Sailor in the late Seventies, Kajanus decided to experiment with electronic mus...
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[Euclid] Data (Greek: Δεδομένα, Dedomena) is a work by Euclid. It deals with the nature and implications of "given" information in geometrical problems. The subject matter is closely related to the first four books of Euclid`s Elements. ==Editions and translations== ...
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A group of facts of information found by measuring or studying a situation.
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The representative forms of information, including facts, concepts, rules, or any other kind of knowledge.
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Facts or figures from which conclusions can be drawn.
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[Noun] Facts or information; information stored by a computer.
Example: When the data has been analysed, a report will be written.
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Recorded information, regardless of medium or characteristics, of any nature, including administrative, managerial, financial, and technical.
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A representation of facts, concepts or instructions in a formalised manner suitable for communication, interpretation or processing.
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[n] - a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
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Information (usually numeric) collected on the participants in a study and on which data analysis is performed.
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A general term to describe the basic form of information. The plural form of datum, this refers to any computer information which can be removed, modified or copied.
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Information of a quantitative nature consisting of counts or measurements.
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Information, especially information in a form that can be used by a computer. It can include text, numbers, sounds and pictures. A single piece of information is called a Datum.
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Information a computer needs in order to make decisions or carry out a particular action. Information stored and used by a computer.
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A series of facts or statements that may have been collected, stored, processed or manipulated but have not been organized. See also: Data Mining, Database, Time History.
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Factual pieces of information
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is the plural of datum, which refers to a record of an observation. Data can be numerical (and hence quantitative) or consist of words or images (hence qualitative). A distinction is sometimes made between naturally occurring data - such as tape recordings of conversations that would have occurred w...
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A set of information
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Data: Facts, statistics, and the like. In medicine and the health sciences, people often speak of 'the data' erroneously in the singular. 'Data' is a plural noun and takes a plural verb, as in 'the data are very convincing.' It comes from the Latin 'datum', meaning 'a thing given.' For the Romans da...
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Information that is recorded or processed
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IT systems are made up of hardware, software and data. Data is the material that the hardware processes, as instructed by the software. If you use computers that don`t use data, or don`t have any inputs or don`t have any outputs, you may not be getting the best from that computer.
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The number that make up a digital file.
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Computer data is a series of measurements or figures which can be operated on or produced by a computer. If the data is presented or interpreted into a form that conveys meaning then the data has become information (q.v.). If information is to be entered into a computer system, it must be changed in...
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Da'ta noun plural [ Latin pl . of datum .] See Datum .
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Multiple facts (usually but not necessarily empirical) used as a basis for inference, testing, models, etc. The word is plural and takes a plural verb. ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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