Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
You can refer to information as ~, especially when it is in the form of facts or statistics that you can analyse. In American English, ~ is usually a plural noun. In technical or formal British English, ~ is sometimes a plural noun, but at other times, it is an uncount noun.
The study was based on ~ from 2,100 women...
To cope with these ~, hospitals bought large mainframe computers.
N-UNCOUNT; also N-PLURAL
2.
Data is information that can be stored and used by a computer program. (COMPUTING)
You can compress huge amounts of ~ on to a CD-ROM.
N-UNCOUNT