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raw data

noun

raw data

noun

Etymology Coined in the 1910s, from raw (“unprocessed”) + data.

1

Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics Data that has not been analyzed or processed.

Data management

  • Do their speakers semantically align supposedly raw data with supposedly raw text (that is, ASCII) and supposedly raw footage (unedited film or video) the way that English speakers do?2013, Lisa Gitelman, editor, Raw Data Is an Oxymoron, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 11:
  • According to Bellinger, that's down to the fact that what's appearing on the Rail Data Marketplace is raw data.2026 April 29, Peter Plisner, “Customer comes first in new survey”, in RAIL, number 1060, page 43:

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