December 12, 2016

What is Data?

Data: The word “Data” is the plural of “Datum”. Data is the raw material on which a computer operates.

Some feature/characteristics of data are:

  1. The term data is used to describe raw facts (not yet processed) about something.
  2. Data is used as input for the data processing system.
  3. It is not organized or structured.
  4. It is useless, because without processing, data shows no meaning.

Example:
Example of Data


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