Data Services assists advanced researchers to locate and obtain raw data to support their research. Usually a graduate student or faculty member. Depending on the course requirements, a senior honors course, thesis or advanced project might involve analyzing some data.
Raw data can be the original results of a study or poll, or a series of values recorded over time.
Stored in an electronic file, your survey results look like just a stream of 14,000 numbers. This would be a raw data set whose coded content is explained by its associated codebook. By running an analysis on it with a software package, you might be able to assert that Catholic women who own pets are less likely to have heart attacks. An example of the series of values kind of raw data would be the average monthly price of gold for 10 years. A lot of people will say I need some data on this, but really, usually they just need the statistics that summarize some data.