You are a scientist presenting at your first scientific meeting and you want everyone to be as excited as you are about your findings. Scientists typically present their data in two-dimensional graphs, charts or figures. While this is the common way to see data, it is not very exciting. You decide to create a three-dimensional display for your data, so it will be exciting and everyone will want to learn about it. About Data Data is information, evidence, facts or figures that is processed in some way to draw conclusions.
Data is any information that is collected in order to learn something.
Sorting money you have saved by pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters provides data. You can use that data to tell you how much money you have in each type of coin, how much money you have altogether, or even how much money you have saved each week. Data is nothing more than numbers until it is analyzed in some way.