Meanings
nounraw data (uncountable)
- uncountabledata managementmathematicsData that has not been analyzed or processed.
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 431 more example
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
Origin
Coined in the 1910s, from raw (“unprocessed”) + data.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 原始數據 /原始数据
- 原始數據 /原始数据data that have not been analyzed
Danish rådata
- rådatadata that have not been analyzed
Finnish raakadata
- raakadatadata that have not been analyzed
German Rohdaten
- Rohdatendata that have not been analyzed
Japanese ローデータ
- ローデータ (rō dēta)data that have not been analyzed
Korean 로 데이터
- 로 데이터 (ro deiteo)data that have not been analyzed
Norwegian Bokmål rådata
- rådatadata that have not been analyzed
Polish surowe dane
- surowe danedata that have not been analyzed
Cite this entry
APA
raw data. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/raw%20data
MLA
“raw data.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/raw%20data. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “raw data,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/raw%20data.
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