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The meaning of data

Posted on 28/01/2014 by Sarah Kante
Image by Buster Benson on Flickr

Image by Buster Benson on Flickr

The word ‘data’ is used regularly across a range of areas – science, technology, politics, film, art or media. Some people see each and every one of us as a collection of data, files upon files of information to be interrogated.

Data terminology is part of our everyday lexicon. With data-related issues seemingly omnipresent in our lives, it’s important that we understand what these data-related terms mean in order for us to make sense of our enmeshed physical-digital landscape.

In this article, Sarah Kante explores the meaning data and some of the associated terms.

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Posted in Case studies, Digital tools, Social media | Tagged big data, data, data mining, data sets, data visualisation, definition, Edward Snowden, metadata, NSA, open data, PRISM

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