Data, Information, and Knowledge

Data

Data are any facts, numbers, or text that can be processed by a computer. Today, organizations are accumulating vast and growing amounts of data in different formats and different databases.

This includes:

* operational or transactional data such as, sales, cost, inventory, payroll, and accounting

* nonoperational data, such as industry sales, forecast data, and macro economic data

* meta data - data about the data itself, such as logical database design or data dictionary definitions

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