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Group the data ideas

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Items
  1. Group
    Collecting
    Item
    Find the sources
  2. Group
    Collecting
    Item
    Type into a sheet
  3. Group
    Storing
    Item
    Keep on a device
  4. Group
    Storing
    Item
    Retrieve it later
  5. Group
    Summarising
    Item
    Compute the mean
  6. Group
    Summarising
    Item
    Report the range
Groups
  1. Item
    Collecting
  2. Item
    Storing
  3. Item
    Summarising
Instructions
Drag each item into the group it belongs to.
_Source: syllabus Computer Science, Ch 7 'Understanding Data'_

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Understanding data bingo

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Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    The singular form of the word data.
    Item
    Datum
  2. Clue
    Organised into a well defined row and column format.
    Item
    Structured
  3. Clue
    Web pages, images and video, outside any table.
    Item
    Unstructured
  4. Clue
    Data describing other data, such as an image size.
    Item
    Metadata
  5. Clue
    The systematic government count of a population.
    Item
    Census
  6. Clue
    The average, which outliers distort.
    Item
    Mean
  7. Clue
    The middle value of the sorted list.
    Item
    Median
  8. Clue
    The value that occurs most often.
    Item
    Mode
  9. Clue
    An exceptionally large or small value.
    Item
    Outlier
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.
_Source: syllabus Computer Science, Ch 7 'Understanding Data'_

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