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Difference Between Grouped and Ungrouped Data

Ungrouped data consists of a simple list of numbers or descriptions without any organization, while grouped data organizes the raw data into categories or groups. To create grouped data from ungrouped data, the raw values are sorted into groups and a table is made showing how many data points fall into each group. For example, test scores could be grouped into letter grade ranges or 20-point score ranges to analyze patterns in the data. Grouping data allows for easier analysis and identification of trends compared to analyzing an unorganized list of values.

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Difference Between Grouped and Ungrouped Data

Ungrouped data consists of a simple list of numbers or descriptions without any organization, while grouped data organizes the raw data into categories or groups. To create grouped data from ungrouped data, the raw values are sorted into groups and a table is made showing how many data points fall into each group. For example, test scores could be grouped into letter grade ranges or 20-point score ranges to analyze patterns in the data. Grouping data allows for easier analysis and identification of trends compared to analyzing an unorganized list of values.

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Data can be presented as simply a list of numbers or descriptions, or it can be organized into groups. In this
lesson, you'll learn how to tell the dierence between grouped and ungrouped data and how to turn ungrouped
data into grouped data.

What is Data?
Suppose you decide to record the temperature outside your house every day for a month. Is this
data? What about if you went to all of your friends and asked what each person's favorite ice cream
avor was? Would that information be data, too? Both of these would give you data, and in fact, the
word data is used to refer to any kind of information that you collect and record. It can include
words, numbers, measurements of things, etc.

Data can be either quantitative or qualitative. Quantitative data is numerical, so the record of
temperatures would be quantitative data. Qualitative data records a description of something in
words, like your friends' favorite ice cream avors.

Once you have collected data, what can you do with it? The rst step will be to organize it, and to
do this, you need to know how to create grouped data from ungrouped data.

Ungrouped Data
When conducting any kind of experiment, you rst need to collect the data. Initially, this data will
be a list of numbers or other characteristics that will not be organized in any way. This is called raw
data, or ungrouped data because it has not been sorted into any groups or categories.

For example, imagine that you are teaching a statistics course and you want to analyze the test
scores of the students in the course. You would rst need to gather data on the scores of all the
students enrolled in the course. Most likely, this data would be ungrouped and not organized in
any way.

Grouped Data
Unlike ungrouped data, grouped data has been organized into several groups. To create grouped
data, the raw data is sorted into groups, and a table showing how many data points occur in each
group is created.

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Let's look at the test scores we recorded again and think about how they could be grouped. There
are many dierent ways to group this data. For example, you could record how many students
scored in each 20-point range. Alternatively, you could separate the scores by letter grade. If 90-
100 is an A, 80-89 is a B, 70-79 is a C, 60-69 is a D, and 0-59 is a F, it might make sense to group the
raw data into these ve groups. This would change the frequency distribution a lot, even though
the ungrouped data remained the same.

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