Data processing (disambiguation)

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Data processing most often refers to Electronic data processing, computer processes that convert data into information or knowledge.

Data processing may also refer to:

• Automatic Data Processing, computer services company
• Data analysis; processing data with the goal of highlighting, drawing conclusions, and supporting decision making
• Data entry done by a data entry clerk
• Data processing system, a system which processes data which has been captured and encoded in a format style recognizable by the data processing system or has been created and stored by another unit of an information processing system
• Electronic data processing or EDP
• Information processing; the change (processing), of information in any manner detectable by an observer
• Unit record equipment data processing
• Data Processing journal