People say things like “load the data” then “it won’t load.” They are referring to a data file. Sometimes they say “we need more data” and they really mean mo

People say things like “load the data” then “it won’t load.” They are referring to a data file. Sometimes they say “we need more data” and they really mean more data points. I rarely hear the term “datum” but it’s not technically incorrect, just a bit out of touch. What is a datum? Any piece of data will have multiple properties, so a singular piece is really a data point, which implies a number of bits of datum. I know it’s hard to understand this stuff.