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> Ya, what is a datum? Is that like a piece of data? Yes. It’s like a fact. It’s a thing that’s known. The more common modern equivalent would be “data point”.
by travisjungroth 4y ago
> Ya, what is a datum? Is that like a piece of data?
Yes. It’s like a fact. It’s a thing that’s known. The more common modern equivalent would be “data point”.
- martyvis 4y agoInterestingly there seems to be a trend to refer to an individual fact point as a "factoid". I wonder where that originated. EDIT: I just looked it up and a factoid is a manufactured fact, coined by Norman Mailer in 1973. I seems many use it differently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_term_was_coined_by%2Csimilar_but_not_the_same%22.?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factoid#%3A%7E%3Atext%3DThe_te...