What are research data?
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Research Data encompass ⇒
"...facts, observations, images, computer program results, recordings, measurements or experiences on which an argument, theory, test or hypothesis, or another research output is based. Data may be numerical, descriptive, visual or tactile. It may be raw, cleaned or processed, and may be held in any format or media."
Source: Queensland University of Technology. mopp.qut.edu.au/D/D_02_08.jsp
"From Kepler using Tycho Brahe’s data to build a heliocentric model of the solar system, to the birth of statistical quantum mechanics, to Darwin’s theory of evolution, to the modern theory of the gene, every major scientific revolution has been driven by one thing, and that is data.”
John Quackenbush, Prof. Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Harvard School of Public Health