1. What are Data?
Examples

2. Define the term Data

3. Data consist of values for a variable from an individual in a sample.

4. Lunch Example: Lunch Expenditure data for a week in graduate school. MTh F
$4.32
$3.57
$7.93
$3.20
$3.97

5. Medical Study, baby crying
Example: Data collected on babies crying at night.
What are some of the variables that might be collected from the families participating in the study?

6. Baseball
Pete Rose
Babe Ruth, Josh Gibson, Rodger Maris, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds

7. StatCrunch
StatCrunch Sample Datasets