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Turning Data into Information

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Consider the Following Data (Assume that these are test scores.)

  • Abby
24
  • Murray
 30
  • Barry
 30
  • Nuran
 26
  • Chloe
 34
  • Otis
 22
  • Dawann
 28
  • Perry
 24
  • Eric
 28
  • Qjana
 38
  • Fred
 14
  • Riley
 32
  • Gerry
 36
  • Sam
 26
  • Hannah
 32
  • Tanya
 40
  • Iyauna
 30
  • Ulrich
 28
  • Jason
 28
  • Vanessa
 32
  • Kathy
 34
  • Whitney
 22
  • Liron
 30
  • Yuri
 26
   
  • Zoltan
 36

Typically, our data (image of a black arrow pointing up) looks like this.