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However, from the point of view of conducting research with software, the main difference is that software is associated with action: knowledge creation, information transformation, visualization, etc.  An action can be thought of a functional transformation between two states of data: a \"before\" (e.g., input files, parameter settings, unstructured or tacit information) to an \"after\" state (e.g., output files, transformed data, structured knowledge). That is, software generally performs a function upon something (e.g. software processes data), while data generally has a function performed upon it (e.g. data is processed by software). If we accept the definitions of software and data given at the begining of this section, then (at least in scientific research), the difference between data and software can be summarized by the statement of <sup id=\"matthews2010-footnote\">[Matthews et al. 2010](#matthews2010)</sup>: \"we are more interested in what software *does* rather than what software *is*.\"\n+A commonsense definition of software is that it is \"a set of instructions that direct a computer to do a specific task\"<sup id=\"chun2004-footnote\">[Chun 2004](#chun2004)</sup>. On the other hand, data is simply a collection of facts or measurements (real or simulated). In other words, software is functionally active, while data is passive. Of course, software (in form) can be considered data as well, especially to functional programmers familiar with LISP and other languages with homoiconicity<sup id=\"homoiconicity-footnote\">[Wikipedia-b](#homoiconicity)</sup>. However, from the point of view of conducting research with software, the main difference is that software is associated with action: knowledge creation, information transformation, visualization, etc.  An action can be thought of a functional transformation between two states of data: a \"before\" (e.g., input files, parameter settings, unstructured or tacit information) to an \"after\" state (e.g., output files, transformed data, structured knowledge). That is, software generally performs a function upon something (e.g. software processes data), while data generally has a function performed upon it (e.g. data is processed by software). If we accept the definitions of software and data given at the beginning of this section, then (at least in scientific research), the difference between data and software can be summarized by the statement of <sup id=\"matthews2010-footnote\">[Matthews et al. 2010](#matthews2010)</sup>: \"we are more interested in what software *does* rather than what software *is*.\"\n \n+###Software is available in a human readable and separate computer readable form, data in only one of the two.","path":"README.md","position":17,"original_position":17,"commit_id":"dd797d45512e01e26b4240271c797a6ad4f60af8","original_commit_id":"dd797d45512e01e26b4240271c797a6ad4f60af8","user":{"login":"danielskatz","id":2913845,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2913845?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/danielskatz","html_url":"https://github.com/danielskatz","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danielskatz/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danielskatz/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danielskatz/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danielskatz/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danielskatz/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danielskatz/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danielskatz/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danielskatz/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/danielskatz/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"body":"Data could also be in two forms, for example, ASCII and binary, or ASCII and something compressed.","created_at":"2016-11-24T12:43:28Z","updated_at":"2016-11-24T12:43:28Z","html_url":"https://github.com/danielskatz/software-vs-data/pull/23#discussion_r89491185","pull_request_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/danielskatz/software-vs-data/pulls/23","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.github.com/repos/danielskatz/software-vs-data/pulls/comments/89491185"},"html":{"href":"https://github.com/danielskatz/software-vs-data/pull/23#discussion_r89491185"},"pull_request":{"href":"https://api.github.com/repos/danielskatz/software-vs-data/pulls/23"}}},"pull_request":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/danielskatz/software-vs-data/pulls/23","id":95129942,"html_url":"https://github.com/danielskatz/software-vs-data/pull/23","diff_url":"https://github.com/danielskatz/software-vs-data/pull/23.diff","patch_url":"https://github.com/danielskatz/software-vs-data/pull/23.patch","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/danielskatz/software-vs-data/issues/23","number":23,"state":"open","locked":false,"title":"Master","user":{"login":"rwwh","id":418043,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/418043?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/rwwh","html_url":"https://github.com/rwwh","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rwwh/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rwwh/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rwwh/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rwwh/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rwwh/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rwwh/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rwwh/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rwwh/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/rwwh/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"body":"Another attempt, now with references to documents on the web. 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