Data

How it is used

Researchers collect, gather, analyze and interpret data. Data can be quantitative (numbers) or qualitative (interviews, texts), and raw data are the original, unprocessed records. One organized collection is a data set or dataset.

Example sentences

1. The data were collected through online questionnaires between March and May.

2. We need to clean the data before we start the analysis.

Common collocations

• collect data
• analyze data
• raw data
• data collection
• interpret the data

Related terms

• analysisDetailed examination of data or a text in order to identify patterns, relationships or meaning, often using statistical or qualitative techniques.
• findingsThe results or information that a study discovers after its data have been collected and analyzed.
• questionnaireA set of written questions given to many people to collect information about their opinions, experiences or behavior.
• qualitativeDescribing research that studies experiences, meanings and behavior through words, images or observation rather than numbers, often with smaller groups of people.
• quantitativeDescribing research that collects numerical data and uses statistics to measure, compare or test relationships, often with larger samples.

More terms: Data and Analysis

• significant
• draw a conclusion
• correlation
• thematic analysis
• account for
• interpret
• dataset
• mean
• standard deviation
• descriptive statistics
• p-value
• coding