Assets vs Data - What's the difference?
assets | data |
English plurals
(finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
(legal) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
Any goods or property properly available for the payment of a bankrupt's or a deceased person's obligations or debts.
English plurals: Pieces of information.
(uncountable, collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=76, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= (computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.
As nouns the difference between assets and data
is that assets is while data is (time) date.assets
English
Noun
(head)- His assets are much greater than his liabilities.
data
English
Alternative forms
* (electronics)Noun
(wikipedia data) (-) or plural noun- With fresh material, taxonomic conclusions are leavened by recognition that the material examined reflects the site it occupied; a herbarium packet gives one only a small fraction of the data desirable for sound conclusions. Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get
Snakes and ladders, passage=Risk is everywhere.
Usage notes
* This word is more often used as an uncountable noun with a singular verb than as a plural noun with singular datum. * The definition of data'' in the computing context is from aninternational standard vocabulary] and is meant to distinguish ''data'' from ''information. However, this distinction is largely ignored by the computing profession.[http://eprints.utas.edu.au/1957/1/Cm1My.pdf
Derived terms
* big data * databank * database * datasheet * data acquisition * data analysis * data domain * data element * data entry * data farming * data hiding * data integrity * data maintenance * data management * data mining * data modeling * data path, datapath * data processing * data recovery * data set * data sink * data source * data warehouse * metadata * primary data * raw dataReferences
* (The American Heritage Dictionary's usage note on 'data') *Calpundit: YOU SAY DAY-TA, I SAY DAA-TA*
John Quiggin: Data is not the plural of datum*
johnaugust.com: ‘Data’ is singular
