Question

I need to name this structure:

struct NameNeeded
{
    DateTime timestamp;
    float value;
}

I will have arrays of this struct (a time-series).
I’d like a short and suggestive name. The data is financial (and Tick is not a good name).

The best one I can think of is DataPoint, but I feel that a better one exists 🙂

How would you name it?

Answer 1

Since you have a data value and an associated timestamp, the first thing that popped into my head was DataSample. I pictured a series of these, as if you were taking a digital sampling of an analog signal (the two values were like x- and y-coordinates on a graph).