Data
Data is a set of information or facts. It is used to find out things or to make decisions.
Getting information from various sources and noting them is called data collection.
For example: Write names of 20 students of your class in the table A. Ask name of the fruit they like the most and write it against each name
Now you have collected the required data in a tabular form.
But it is difficult to get some results at a quick glance.
It requires to be presented in some other manner.