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Need of Organization of Data
Need of Organization of Data
Need of Organization of Data
Data organization is a process of organizing raw data, by classifying them into different
categories. This raw data includes the observations on variables. For example, arranging the
marks obtained by students in different subjects is data organization.
As time passes and our volume of data increases, the time consumed to search for any
information from the data source increases, if it hasn’t been organized already. Let us consider
the following example to understand the concept and need of data organization.
1 15
2 18
3 23
4 24
5 26
6 26
7 37
8 38
9 39
10 40
11 40
12 40
13 45
14 48
15 48
This form of representation is easy to interpret and to analyse the data, in this case, is organized.
Data organization may initially take some time, but in a long run, you will understand the worth
of time spent. Once the data is organized properly as per the requirement, it can help us to gather
the required information in a quick span of time in future.
Classification of Data
Classification of data brings order to raw data. We can classify a bulk of data based on their need
or purpose. The different types of data, based on which they are organised are given below:
Chronological data
Spatial data
Qualitative data
Quantitative data
Chronological data are grouped or classified according to the time, such as days, weeks, months,
years. For example, growth of population with time in years.
Spatial data are classified based on geographical locations or areas such as cities, states,
countries, etc.
Qualitative data are categorized under different attributes like nationality, gender, religion,
marital status, etc. Such data cannot be measured but can be classified based on their presence
and absence of qualitative characteristics. For example, categorising the population of males and
females in a city.
Quantitive data is the type of data when the above attributes (in case of qualitative classification)
are further categorised into number based data such as height, age, marks of students, salary, etc.