data processing

The systematic performance of operations upon data such as handling, merging, sorting, and computing. (188 ) Note: The semantic content of the original data should not be changed. The semantic content of the processed data may be changed. Synonym information processing .

processing pattern recognition data normalisation 

<application> The input, verification, organisation, storage, retrieval, transformation, and extraction of information from data. The term is normally associated with commercial applications such as stock control or payroll.
(1995-03-30)

Noun
1. (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information
(hypernym) processing
(hyponym) administrative data processing, business data processing
(part-meronym) execution, instruction execution
(classification) computer science, computing