Noun
The word is derived from datum
See Datum.
of Datum
Source: Webster's dictionaryErrors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all. Charles Babbage
It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts. Arthur Conan Doyle
Experts often possess more data than judgment. Colin Powell
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. Jack Kevorkian
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. John Tukey