3 Organising data

In Week 1 you saw it was important to think about the format in which data should be organised before it is collected. In this section, you will look at some different ways of organising data. In the PCAI cycle organising the data is part of Stage 2, Collect the data.

For small amounts of information, it is fine to simply list the answers. Depending on what you then plan to do with the data e.g. categorise the responses, some further method of organisation may be required.

In the previous section there was an organised list presented:

Figure 9 (repeated) Example whiteboard presentation for sorting of data characteristics