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Forms of Data
There are various forms of data:
- Images: data in the form of pictures, e.g. drawings, painting or photographs; a static or animated graphic used for illustration or as a substitute for text.
- Audio: data in the form of sounds, e.g. noise, voice recognition, music.
- Video: data in the form of pictures and sounds combined and displayed overtime, e.g. film clips.
- Text: data in the form of letters, numbers and other characters; sets of characters of strings.
- Numbers: data in the form of predefined characters, e.g. integers, decimals, percentages, currency and dates.