What is data?
You ask six friends their favourite fruit. What do you now have?
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Your six taps made a list of facts. Now watch a notebook page get six numbers.
Step 1 of 5
- An empty notebook page.
- Sunday: 2 mangoes. One number written.
- Monday: 4 mangoes. A second number.
- Tuesday: 1 mango. A third number.
- Six evenings, six numbers. That is data.
Data is facts you collect and keep.
A fact can be a number, like a mango count. It can be an answer, like a fruit.
A paper notebook can keep data. Data is facts, so you need no screen.