USE OF RESEARCH DATAOCTOBER 10, 2012

D O R C A S K R U B U

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D E P A R T M E N T O F L I B R A R Y A N D I N F O R M A T I O N S C I E N C E

U N I V E R S I T Y O F T H E W E S T E R N C A P E

S O U T H A F R I C A

WHAT IS DATA?Data is raw

Data simply exists and has no significance beyond its existence

It can exist in any form, usable or not and it does not have meaning of itself

In computer parlance, the spreadsheet/microsoft excel is generally for data

Data are values of qualitative or quantitative variables, belonging to a set of item

Data are any facts, numbers, or text that can be processed manually or by a computer

RAW DATA

RESEARCH DATA

That which is…......

gatheredobserved or generated

for purposes of description and analysis in order to produce original research

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PRESENTING YOUR DATA

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PROCESSING RESEARCH DATA

Raw data requires the following for it to be useful:

selective extraction Organization Analysis Formatting for presentation

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Research means gathering of information, that is , carrying out investigation

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part of the process of gathering information is gathering data

The essence of research is to solve a problem