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'''Data Processing''' is any [[process]] that converts [[data]] into [[information]]. The processing is usually assumed to be automated and running on an electronic [[computer]].
In this context data is defined as a collection of numbers or characters that represent a measurement from the real world.
Information is defined as a meaningful answer to a query.
More generally, the term ''data processing'' can apply to any process that converts data from one format to another, although ''[[data conversion]]'' would be the more logical and correct term. The distinction is that conversion doesn't require a question to be answered. For Example, information in the form of an string of characters forming a sentence in English is converted or [[encode]]d at a keyboard into [[ASCII]] code afterwhich it may be more easily processed by a computer and finally converted or [[decode]]d to be displayed as characters on the computer display.
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