What is Data

A value that could be generated from a measurement, observation or counting. It is expressed in defined units and can be easily converted. Learn more in: A Design Framework for a Market Intelligence System for Healthcare Sector: A Support Decision Tool in an Emergent Economy

Information collected during a research effort. Learn more in: Building a Psychometric Instrument and Data Collection Checklist for Healthy Aging Initiatives

Are specific, objective facts or observations standing alone, such facts have no intrinsic meaning, but can be easily captured, transmitted, and stored electronically. Learn more in: Knowledge Management in the Palestinian Public Sector

The pure and simple facts without any particular structure or organization, the basic atoms of information. Learn more in: Communication, Information, and Pragmatics

Factual information, especially organized for analysis, reasoning, or making decisions. Learn more in: Advances in Describing and Managing Our Environment

Specific information of certain variables acquired with the purpose of studying natural phenomena. Learn more in: Argumentation Schema to Analyze High School Students' Scientific Reasoning

Is raw, unorganised individual elements or facts. These can be numbers, symbols, text, or images. Learn more in: Evolution of the Health Record as a Communication Tool to Support Patient Safety

The representation of facts, concepts or instructions. Formalized with a structure suitable for communication, interpretation or processing by humans or by automatic means. The raw material of information. The basic element for the production of new information. Learn more in: Information Strategy: Implementing and Managing a Digital Strategy in a Portuguese Company

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Pieces collected on a daily basis in the form of bits, numbers, symbols, and “objects.” Learn more in: Adaptive Business Intelligence

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One or more values represented in numeric, symbolic or any other form. Learn more in: Automated Interpretation of Key Performance Indicators by Using Rules

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The representation of facts, concepts or instructions. Formalized with a structure suitable for communication, interpretation or processing by humans or by automatic means. The raw material of information. The basic element for the production of new information. Learn more in: Implementing and Managing an Information Strategy Project: The Case of a Real Estate Broker Organization

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Newly created or existing information that is derived from observation or research. It may be data that uses numbers or values (quantitative), or a description of concepts that cannot be counted or measured but is observed and recorded by a trained researcher (qualitative), or is a combination of quantitative and qualitative information. Learn more in: Teenage Pregnancy: From Research and Theory to Practice

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Data is an essential raw material for creating and implementing successful analytical solutions. Learn more in: Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities for the Family Business

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All the information that is available for querying. Learn more in: Analyzing GraphQL Performance: A Case Study

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These refer to quantities, characters, or symbols on which operations are performed by a computer, which may be stored and transmitted in the form of electrical signals and recorded on magnetic, optical, or mechanical recording media.The singular form is datum. Learn more in: Disaster and Digital Libraries in Developing Countries: Issues and Challenges

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Observations. Learn more in: Data, Information, and Knowledge: Developing an Intangible Assets Strategy

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Symbols obtained through an encoding process of the environment cit_bfthat can be available to an individual and/or organization but which have not as yet been evaluated for their worth in a specific scenario. Learn more in: The Quality Attribution in Data, Information and Knowledge

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Facts and numbers which relay something specific, but which are not organized in any way and which provide no further information. Learn more in: Software Component Technology: Concepts, Design, and Management Method

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The facts about different aspects are termed as data. Learn more in: Technology Support for Knowledge Management in Industrial Settings: Issues and Implications

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Information obtained and put together. Learn more in: A Walk Through the World of Data Analytics

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Information in raw or unorganized form (such as alphabets, numbers, or symbols) that refer to, or represent, conditions, ideas, or objects. Learn more in: Information Architecture as an Enabler for Business Development: A Case Study

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Observations. Learn more in: Data, Knowledge, and Intelligence

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The representation of facts, concepts or instructions. Formalized with a structure suitable for communication, interpretation or processing by humans or by automatic means. The raw material of information. The basic element for the production of new information. Learn more in: Strategic Information Management: Implementing and Managing a Digital Project

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The set of samples, facts, or cases in a data repository. As an example of a sample, consider the field values of a particular credit application in a bank database. Learn more in: Credit Risk Assessment and Data Mining

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Data is basically codes that constitute the raw material of information, ie, it is untreated information. Data refers to facts, events, actions, activities, and transactions which have been and can be recorded, i.e. the raw material from which information is produced, nurturing the infrastructure and components that enable modern computing. Data represent one or more meanings of a system that transmits a message. Information is any structuring or organization of such data. Learn more in: Lower Memory Consumption for Data Transmission in Smart Cloud Environments With CBEDE Methodology

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Information that is gathered from a variety of sources of student work. This information helps to guide the planning of lessons that meet the needs of students. Learn more in: Using Classroom Assessment Data to Guide Instruction

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Data are “binary (digital) representations of atomic facts,” especially from financial transactions. Data may also be “text, graphics, bit-mapped images, sound, analog or digital live-video segments.” Structured data are the “raw material” for analysis using a data-driven DSS. The data are “supplied by data producers and [are] used by managers and analysts to create information.” Learn more in: Development and Design Methodologies in DWM

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A representation of facts, concepts, or instructions in a formalized manner suitable for communication, interpretation, or processing by humans or by automated means. Learn more in: Social Network Analysis for Virtual Communities

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Data is raw fact that can be processed for information. Examples of data include texts, images, and videos. Learn more in: Data Avalanche: Harnessing for Mobile Payment Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning

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Observations. Learn more in: Big Data, Knowledge, and Business Intelligence

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Facts and statistics collected together on which operations are performed for reference or analysis. Learn more in: Big Data and Analytics: Application to Healthcare Industry

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Any and all complex data entities from observations, experiments, simulations, models, and higher order assemblies, along with the associated documentation needed to describe and interpret them Learn more in: SHARE: A European Healthgrid Roadmap

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The representation of facts, concepts or instructions. Formalized with a structure suitable for communication, interpretation or processing by humans or by automatic means. The raw material of information. The basic element for the production of new information. Learn more in: Challenges for Education in the Information Society

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It is a collection of information. Learn more in: Data Visualization in R

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It is a collection of raw facts about something. Learn more in: Insight Into Big Data Analytics: Challenges, Recent Trends, and Future Prospects

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The representation of facts or instructions in a manner suitable for processing by computers or analyzing by human. Learn more in: Investigation of Software Reliability Prediction Using Statistical and Machine Learning Methods

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Are specific figures or observations standing alone, such facts have no intrinsic meaning, but can be easily captured, transmitted, and stored electronically. Learn more in: An Explorative Study of Knowledge-Transfer Mechanism: Processes and Factors (Enablers and Barriers) – Conceptual Model

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Observations. Learn more in: Big Data, Knowledge, and Business Intelligence

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Presentation of the processed information for transmission, interpretation, or processing (computer files, paper documents, records in the information system, etc.). Learn more in: Assessment Approach of Enterprise Readiness to Digital Transformation

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Quantitative facts, figures or statistics provided without context. Learn more in: Information Visualization and Interface Culture

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It refers to representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts, or instructions that are being prepared in a formal manner. It is intended for processing and may be stored in any form on papers or on a storage device or in the computer memory. Learn more in: Citizen Data in Distributed Computing Environments: Privacy and Protection Mechanisms

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Both a generic and specific term to describe information now typically stored on computers. It is used generically when the structure and subject matter is unknown. It is used specifically when ascribed to a defined data set, such as ‘statistical data’. The term. Often referred to as Big Data or Data Lakes, these describing large volumes and varieties of data, increasing daily by volume and subject matter. Data is both structured, where the data must conform to certain rules, such as financial transactions, and free flowing, where no or little structure is required, such as the information shared via social media. See also ‘data lifecycle’. Learn more in: Data Privacy vs. Data Security

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Data is factual information, especially organized for analysis, reasoning, or making decisions. Learn more in: Visualization of Big Data Sets Using Computer Graphics

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Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis. Learn more in: Information Security Awareness in Tourism Enterprises: Case of Turkish Manager Opinions

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This term comprises facts, observations, and raw information. Data itself has little meaning if it is not processed. Learn more in: Big Data, Who Are You?

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The data does not carry any sense or meaning of the facts, images or sounds, since they lack relational elements essential to the establishment of a complete meaning, requiring a relational structure internal to a cognitive purpose. Learn more in: Information and Its Conceptual Perspectives

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