Collocations for data - noun

accurate, reliable | comprehensive, detailed, extensive | raw
We have amassed the raw data and are about to begin analysing it.

factual, hard
There is no hard data to support these theories.

empirical, experimental, numerical, observational, scientific, statistical | demographic, environmental, financial, geological, historical, technical

item, piece
One vital item of data was missing from the table.

mass, set
Special software is needed to manipulate the mass of data. | Although we were using the same set of data, we obtained different results.

acquire, amass, capture, collect, gather, get, obtain
We need to collect more data before we can do any more work.

enter, feed in | have, hold, record, store
They are not allowed to hold data on people''s private finances.

access, retrieve | analyse, examine, interpret, look at, study | handle, manage, manipulate, process
The computer can manipulate massive amounts of data.

exchange, share, transfer | present (sb with) | provide (sb with)
The government departments refused to provide the data that we required.

be derived from sth
The data derived from this project has vastly increased our knowledge of how genes work.

indicate sth, reflect sth, show sth, suggest sth
Data indicates that most crime is committed by young males. | This data reflects the magnitude of the problem.

support sth

acquisition, capture, collection | entry, input | storage | access, retrieval | analysis, handling, management, manipulation, processing | exchange, interchange, transfer, transmission | protection, security | source | archive, bank (also ‘databank’), base (also ‘database’), file | system

in the ~
We have found some very interesting things in the data.

~ about
Data about patients is only released with their permission.

~ for
We have no data for southern Spain.

~ from
My aim is to synthesize data from all the surveys.

~ on
data on the effects of pollution

the acquisition/handling/storage, etc. of data, a source of data