Raw data

How it is used

You collect, store, export or keep raw data. Teams often keep an untouched raw copy so they can rerun the cleaning steps. 'Raw' contrasts with 'clean', 'processed' and 'aggregated'. Treated as uncountable: 'the raw data is…'.

Example sentences

1. Can you send me the raw data, not just the summary table?

2. We keep the raw data for 90 days in case we need to reprocess it.

Common collocations

• raw data file
• keep the raw data
• export raw data
• raw event data

Related terms

• datasetA collection of examples, such as images, texts or table rows, gathered and organized for training, testing or analyzing a model.
• data cleaningThe process of finding and fixing problems in data, such as wrong formats, typos, duplicates and missing values, so that it can be trusted for analysis.
• data sourceAny place that data comes from, such as a database, an app, a spreadsheet, a survey, an external API or a file sent by a partner.
• ETLShort for extract, transform, load: the process of taking data out of source systems, cleaning and reshaping it, and loading it into a warehouse.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• raw data · Data Science & Analytics

More terms: Machine Learning and Data Processing

• artificial intelligence
• machine learning
• model
• training data
• label
• train
• supervised learning
• neural network
• deep learning
• loss function
• overfitting
• test set