Data (/ ˈdeɪtə / DAY-tə, US also / ˈdætə / DAT-ə) are a collection of discrete or continuous values that convey information, describing the quantity, quality, fact, statistics, other basic units of meaning, or simply sequences of symbols that may be further interpreted formally. A datum is an individual value in a collection of data. Data are usually organized into structures such as ...
Data is a collection of facts, such as numbers, words, measurements, observations or just descriptions of things. ... Data can be qualitative or quantitative.