Data Double Liberation? Meta-Culture
Data
Data refers to a collection of organized information, usually the results of experience, observation or experiment, or a set of premises. This may consist of numbers, words, or images, particularly as measurements or observations of a set of variables.
The word data is the plural of Latin datum, neuter past participle of dare, “to give”, hence “something given”. The past participle of “to give” has been used for millennia, in the sense of a statement accepted at face value; one of the works of Euclid, circa 300 BC, was the Dedomena (in Latin, Data). In discussions of problems in geometry, mathematics, engineering, and so on, the terms givens and data are used interchangeably. Such usage is the origin of data as a concept in computer science: data are numbers, words, images, etc., accepted as they stand. Pronounced dey-tuh, dat-uh, or dah-tuh.
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A senior director at BMC Software, lured across town to rival HP, spent more than two weeks stealing valuable secret documents and data before telling his employer about his new job, according to a federal lawsuit filed against him. > |
| MTV employees’ private data stolen > |
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MTV Networks became the target of information theft recently when an individual stole private employee data by hacking into the New York company’s computers.> |
| New data show gambling revenues dip in Las Vegas > |
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New data from the Nevada Gaming Control Board show that revenues from casino gambling in the city fell in January — the first such drop since 2001. > |
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