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podatak

Podatak is a noun used in several South Slavic languages, including Croatian, Serbian, and Bosnian, to denote a single piece of information or a datum. In everyday language and in technical contexts, podatak refers to an individual item of information, while the plural podaci (or podatci) denotes data as a collection. In English-language technical writing, data is often treated as a plural word or as a mass noun; in these languages, the singular podatak corresponds to a single datum.

Origins and usage: The term is native to South Slavic linguistic regions and is widely used in

In information technology and data science, podatak may be understood as a unit of information encoded digitally,

Overall, podatak is a foundational term in data-related discourse across several South Slavic languages.

government
records,
statistics,
research,
business,
and
information
technology.
It
is
used
across
fields
to
refer
to
the
smallest
unit
of
information
that
can
be
stored,
transmitted,
or
analyzed.
such
as
a
number,
a
string
of
text,
or
a
binary
value.
A
collection
of
such
units
forms
data.
Data
are
often
described
as
structured,
semi-structured,
or
unstructured;
metadata
provides
information
about
data,
and
data
governance
addresses
quality,
privacy,
and
interoperability.