I read the text “Data” by Lev Manovich and highlighted what I thought was relevant to the definition of data and its relevance to functioning of societies. Data science is a relatively new field of work/study with the development of computers, using statistical methods etc to handle large amounts of data. This can include numbers, categories, texts, images, audio and similar media types, records of activities, samples, locations and connections between these things which can be analyzed using computational methods. It allows the use of large scale analysis to make decisions which can be useful to businesses, healthcare and governments especially or used for artistic purposes. The text provides many examples of data objects and I chose to look further into Facebook Phenomenon and the Facebook pyramid data of employees and digital capitalism, the graphs are very in depth and show connections within the company pulled rom publicly available information.Data-like representations have been used for thousands of years however the adoption of computers has restricted what may count as data today, meaning a dataset must be objects structured in a way suitable for computational medium. Most representations of data sets are also biased in that they include certain aspects and exclude others or practicality. A map was once nothing more than a 2D diagram on a piece of paper or a wall, only showing relevant information whereas now digital maps have much more utility and the ability to show further data types of your choice like navigation instructions and traffic details. What would we do without data?