ABSTRACT
The term data represents a collection of qualitative or quantitative variables or something of significance, usually belonging to a set of items, assets, and objects. Data in terms of cybersystems are oftentimes represented by a combination of items that are sent and/or received by an organization’s process or operation, which collects, consolidates, and organizes said items into a construct with meaningful context. Data generally are the result of measurements taken from a process or operation and are represented in columnar or noncolumnar format; they can also be graphically represented in the form of charts, graphs, or other meaningful graphical representation. Data can be described in an abstracted context, being thus viewed in their lowest level of abstraction from which information, and eventually knowledge (to some, intelligence), is obtained and derived.
