Raw data

Alright kiddo, imagine you have a bag full of colorful jelly beans. Each jelly bean has a different color, and you want to count how many of each color you have. When you pour out the jelly beans onto a table, you have what we call "raw data."

In this case, raw data is just the information you collected without doing anything to it yet, like sorting the jelly beans by color. It's like having a jumbled mess of information that doesn't make much sense without putting it into order first.

Raw data might also be a bunch of numbers, words, or other types of information that need to be organized before they can be used. Once you've sorted the jelly beans by color, you'll have "organized data" that makes it easy to see how many of each color you have.

So, raw data is just all the information you've gathered that needs to be organized to make sense of it. Whether it's jelly beans or anything else, you'll need to put it into order before you can use it for anything purposeful!