QUESTION
The Raw Facts and Figures are Called?
OPTIONS
(b) Knowledge
(c) Information
(d) Data
ANSWER
(a) Data
The Raw Facts and Figures are Called Data.
The Raw Facts and Figures are Called Data. The word raw means that the facts have not yet been processed to get their exact meaning. Data is collected from different sources. It is collected for different purposes. Data may consist of numbers, characters, symbols or pictures etc. The process of sorting or calculating data is called Data Processing. The result of data processing is Information.
Data is a set of values of qualitative or quantitative variables. An example of qualitative data is an anthropologist's handwritten note about his or her interviews with indigenous people. Pieces of data are individual pieces of information.
