raw data en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined in the 1910s, from raw (“unprocessed”) + data.
Meanings
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(qualifier:data management, uncountable) Data that has not been analyzed or processed.
Do their speakers semantically align supposedly raw data with supposedly raw text (that is, ASCII) and supposedly raw footage (unedited film or video) the way that English speakers do?
2013, Lisa Gitelman, editor, Raw Data Is an Oxymoron, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 11:According to Bellinger, that's down to the fact that what's appearing on the Rail Data Marketplace is raw data.
2026 April 29, Peter Plisner, “Customer comes first in new survey”, in RAIL, number 1060, page 43:
Translations (9)
cmn 原始數據 /原始数据 (data that have not been analyzed) · ja ローデータ (data that have not been analyzed) · nb rådata (data that have not been analyzed) · ko 로 데이터 (data that have not been analyzed) · fi raakadata (data that have not been analyzed) · nn rådata (data that have not been analyzed) · da rådata (data that have not been analyzed) · de Rohdaten (data that have not been analyzed) · pl surowe dane (data that have not been analyzed)