Computer Data Processing

Computer data processing involves using a computer program to enter, analyze, and convert data into usable information. It can include recording, analyzing, sorting, summarizing, calculating, disseminating, and storing data. Data processing first converts data into a machine-readable format, then applies procedures like data summarization, aggregation, validation, and statistical analysis to extract useful information. It involves specialized components that convert input data into further processed information outputs.

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Computer data processing

Computer data processing is any process that uses a computer program to enter
data and summarise, analyse or otherwise convert datainto usable information. The
process may be automated and run on a computer. It involves recording, analysing,
sorting, summarising, calculating, disseminating and storing data. Because data is most
useful when well-presented and actually informative, data-processing systems are often
referred to as information systems. Nevertheless, the terms are roughly synonymous,
performing similar conversions; data-processing systems typically manipulate raw data
into information, and likewise information systems typically take raw data as input to
produce information as output.

Data processing may or may not be distinguished from data conversion, when the
process is merely to convert data to another format, and does not involve any data
manipulation.

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Practically all naturally occurring processes can be viewed as examples of data

processing systems where "observable" information in the form of pressure, light, etc.
are converted by human observers into electrical signals in the nervous system as
the senses we recognize astouch, sound, and vision. Even the interaction of non-living
systems may be viewed in this way as rudimentary information processing systems.
Conventional usage of the terms data processing and information systems restricts their
use to refer to the algorithmic derivations, logical deductions, and statistical calculations
that recur perennially in general business environments, rather than in the more
expansive sense of all conversions of real-world measurements into real-world
information in, say, an organic biological system or even a scientific or engineering
system.

Elements of data processing

In order to be processed by a computer, data needs first be converted into a machine
readable format. Once data is in digital format, various procedures can be applied on the
data to get useful information. Data processing may involve various processes,
including:
 Data summarization
 Data aggregation
 Data validation
 Data tabulation
 Statistical analysis

Data processing system

Information Processor

Data Processor
In information processing,a Data Processing System is a system which processes
data which has been captured and encoded in a formatrecognizable by the data
processing system or has been created and stored by another unit of aninformation
processing system.

A data entry is a specialized component or form of an information processing

(sub)system. Its chief difference is that it tends to perform a dedicated function (i.e.,
its program is not readily changeable). Its dedicated function is normally to perform
some (intermediate) step of converting input ('raw' or unprocessed) data, or semi-
processed information, in one form into a further or final form of information through
a processcalled decoding / encoding or formatting or re-formatting or translation or data
conversion before the information can be output from the data processor to a further
step in the information processing system.

For the hardware data processing system, this information may be used to change the
sequential states of a (hardware) machine called acomputer. In all essential aspects, the
hardware data processing unit is indistinguishable from a computer's central processing
unit (CPU), i.e. the hardware data processing unit is just a dedicated computer.
However, the hardware data processing unit is normally dedicated to the
specific computer application of format translation.

A software code compiler (e.g., for Fortran or Algol) is an example of a software data
processing system. The software data processing system makes use of a (general
purpose) computer in order to complete its functions. A software data processing system
is normally a standalone unit of software, in that its output can be directed to any number
of other (not necessarily as yet identified) information processing (sub)systems.
The types of data processing correspond to the specific actions as discussed below.

Recording
1. This is a type of data processing that pertains to transmitting facts into various
structures or documents. It is also the processing of facts from intermediary
records and data from computations.

Verifying
2. This pertains to the cautious examination of the documented information for any
inaccuracies.

Duplicating
3. This data processing pertains to the replication of records into numerous copies or
files.

Sorting
4. This data processing pertains to assembling or regrouping data in a preset order,
such as an alphabetic or numeric arrangement.