datacoding
nounUK /ˈdeɪtəˌkəʊdɪŋ/
US /ˈdeɪtəˌkoʊdɪŋ/
Datacoding is turning information into a special code that computers can read.
The teacher showed us how datacoding helps a computer store our names and scores.
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2. The process of assigning codes to survey answers so they can be counted.
After the questionnaires were collected, datacoding turned the answers into numbers.
3. A method of labeling data with short tags for quick sorting.
Datacoding made it easy to group the photos by date.
4. The act of converting text into a machine-readable format.
Datacoding the old records let the new software search them.