Data Handling G6

Suppose you have to make a list of all the books in your cupboard, or have to maintain a record of all the tasks you performed the previous week. How would you usually go about this then? It’s pretty simple. You will create a table and arrange all the names and numbers in the respective rows and columns. Thus, this table provides 'Data'. What do we mean by data? Data is a collection of numbers gathered to give some information. Why maintaining data is useful? And how data handling is necessary for us in our day-to-day lives? Let us seek the answers to these questions in this chapter.