raw data

raw data

English

Etymology

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

Noun

raw data (uncountable)

  1. (data management, statistics) Data that has not been analyzed or processed.
    • 2013, Lisa Gitelman, editor, Raw Data Is an Oxymoron, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 11:
      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?
    • 2026 April 29, Peter Plisner, “Customer comes first in new survey”, in RAIL, number 1060, page 43:
      According to Bellinger, that's down to the fact that what's appearing on the Rail Data Marketplace is raw data.

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