Data vs Analytic - What's the difference?

data | analytic |

As a noun data

is (time) date.

As an adjective analytic is

of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics.

data

English

Alternative forms

* (electronics)

Noun

(wikipedia data) (-) or plural noun

English plurals: Pieces of information.

(uncountable, collectively) Information, especially in a scientific or computational context.

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

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(computing) A representation of facts or ideas in a formalized manner capable of being communicated or manipulated by some process.

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 an international 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 data

References

* (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

Anagrams

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analytic

English

Alternative forms

* analytick

Adjective

(en adjective)

of, or relating to any form of analysis, or to analytics

of, or relating to division into elements or principles

having the ability to analyse

(logic) (of a proposition ) that follows necessarily; tautologous

(mathematics) of, or relating to algebra or a similar method of analysis

(analysis) being defined in terms of objects of differential calculus such as derivatives

(linguistics) using multiple simple words, instead of inflection

Antonyms

* (linguistic) synthetic * (logical) contingent

Derived terms

() * analyticism * analyticity * analytic capacity * analytic combinatorics * analytic continuation * analytic cubism * analytic element method * analytic frame * analytic function * analytic geometry * analytic hierarchy * analytic induction * analytic language * analytic manifold * analytic number theory * analytic philosophy * analytic proof * analytic proposition * analytic psychology * analytic set * analytic signal * analytic solution * analytic variety * hyperanalytic * psychoanalytic