Just imagine you being in a data conference throwing out the just cited definition. Probably you will rather less inspire nor delight, but will be confronted with a lot of contrary conceptions, due to the fact that data brings together so many different fields including software engineering, networks, programming, distributed systems, cryptography, security, economics, finance, monetary theory, risk, law, philosophy, ethics, sociology, psychology, archival and record-keeping studies, and political science, among others. So, referring to a small list of parameters for defining data might not even be enough for Small Talk anymore.
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