If you mean qualitative and quantitative data, then data would be dealing with numbers to describe a statistical analysis whereas qualitative represents things that cannot be expressed as numbers such as color.
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The main difference between qualititative and quantitative data is the numeric information. In quliatative data we only rely on information from the field which is not numeric and the quantitative data contains numerica data. That's why quantitative data is also know as mathematic dats.
Quantitative data deals with numbers and data that are measurable. Qualitative data, meanwhile, deals with descriptions and data that are observable but not measurable.
Qualitative and quantitative data are both 2 important types of data. Qualitative data is data based on observation and description. An easy way to remember this, Qualitative ---> QUALity. Examples of qualitative data are when you record colors, smells, textures, etc... Quantitative data is based on numerical values. An easy way to remember this, Quantitative ---> QUANTity. An example of quantitative data are any type of numerical values.
Qualitative data is describing by looks (I.e. The plant is green, or the person is taller than the dog) Quantitative data is describing by numbers (I.e. 8' tall, or 35 inches long)
Quantitative observations are the data collected in an experiment, mostly numbers. Qualitative observations would usually include written answers to analysis questions.