Process by which data is transferred from a paper copy to an electric file.

• A. Data set
• B. Data capture
• C. Observations
• D. Outlier

Answer: (B)

Transferring information from a paper copy into an electronic file is data capture. This term covers the process of converting or inputting data from a physical source into a digital format, whether by typing, scanning, or using OCR to read forms and turn them into electronic records. Data capture can be done manually (data entry) or automatically (scanning with OCR, barcode readers, etc.), and it is the step that turns paper data into a usable digital form.

The other terms describe what the data are, not how they are moved into a computer. A data set is simply a collection of data values. Observations are the individual data points or measurements collected. An outlier is a data point that lies far from the rest of the data.