What's trending: libraries and data specialists digging for data down under

Data are information or knowledge represented or coded in a suitable form for processing or for use in another form. It can be defined or described in many ways depending on its contextual use. Data are a set of values of subjects with respect to qualitative or quantitative variables which can be measured, collected, reported and analyzed, such that it can be visualized using graphs, images or other analytical tools. In computing, data are any sequence of one or more symbols given meaning by specific act(s) of interpretation (Wikipedia). In librarianship, data are information stored in any form or format,...