collocation · academic
data analysis
/ˈdeɪtə əˈnæləsɪs/DA·ta a·NAL·y·sis
The process of examining data to discover patterns or draw conclusions.
Examples
“After collecting the questionnaires, we ran data analysis to identify major trends.”
“The thesis included a detailed description of the data analysis methods.”
“Most students find data analysis the hardest part of a small research project.”
Band 8 sentence
“Using appropriate software for data analysis allowed the researchers to identify subtle patterns in responses.”
Collocations
- perform data analysis
- statistical data analysis
- software for data analysis
Word family
Common mistakes
make data analysis→perform data analysis
do the data analysis→conduct data analysis
Say it for a higher band
5do data analysis→6analyze data→7+data analysis
Synonyms
data processing
Easily confused
statistical analysis
“The study used statistical analysis to test whether the two variables were correlated.”
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