Understanding data bingo

Exercise and reference answers

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.

Explanation