Data

Data as defined by Cambridge Dictionary: information, especially facts or numbers, collected to be examined and considered and used to help decision-making, or information in an electronic form that can be stored and used by a computer.

Qualitative data as defined by Business Dictionary: data that approximates or characterizes but does not measure the attributes, characterizes, properties, etc., of a thing or phenomenon.

Quantitative date s defined by Oxford Dictionary: relating to, measuring, or measured by the quantity of something rather than its quality.

To better help understand qualitative data and quantitative data I present to you the Krabby Patty, from the Nickelodeon hit show SpongeBob SquarePants:

Qualitative Data 

• Tan bun with sesame seeds
• Green lettuce
• Red tomato
• Yellow cheese
• Brown beef patty
• smells like cooked beef
• Secret Formula 

Quantitative Data

• Two buns
• Thirty-Seven sesame seeds
• One leaf lettuce
• Two sliced tomatoes 
• One slice cheese 
• One beef patty
• Three-inches in height 
• Five-inches in diameter
• Weights three ounces