The fundamental data structure in a data processing system. Any unit of data defined for processing is a data element; for example, ACCOUNT NUMBER, NAME, ADDRESS and CITY. A data element is ...

The film details the data analysis procedures used in a comparative psycholinguistics research project at the University of Illinois, initiated in 1960. It illustrates the systematic steps taken to ...

All data processing is performed in the central computer. Centralized processing evolved from the first computers in the 1950s, which were stand-alone with all input and output devices in the same ...