Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Defining Quantitative Data Analysis

Quantitative data means data or evidence based on numbers.

Examples of numeric data include:
  • number of people expressing satisfaction with an organization's IT help desk
  • a company's annual turnover for each of the last 5 years
  • time in seconds to process a data file
  • number of characters in a computer animation
  • number of people accessing the Internet for more than 20 hours per week
  • number of hot links on a website

The idea of quantitative data analysis is to look for patterns in the data and draw conclusions.


Source:
Book: Researching Information Systems and Computing, Briony J Oates, 2006

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