as in fact
a single piece of information
let's begin our discussion of this matter with a datum from actual experience
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The data comes from the Census' annual American Community Survey, which only gives people the option to identify as male or female.
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Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
There’s the teacher who spends hours copying and pasting data between enterprise apps; the Shopify sellers who spend too much time looking up order numbers and then pasting them into customer-support emails.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 25 Oct. 2024
An intelligent algorithm can analyze historical sales data to personalize marketing, automate restocking and prevent fraud in real time, boosting conversions and security.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
There are no major earnings or data releases Monday.
—Sophie Kiderlin,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
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Alex Fitzpatrick, Axios, 25 Oct. 2024
There’s the teacher who spends hours copying and pasting data between enterprise apps; the Shopify sellers who spend too much time looking up order numbers and then pasting them into customer-support emails.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 25 Oct. 2024
An intelligent algorithm can analyze historical sales data to personalize marketing, automate restocking and prevent fraud in real time, boosting conversions and security.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2024
There are no major earnings or data releases Monday.
—Sophie Kiderlin,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2024
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“Datum.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/datum. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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