The 5 W's (and also 1 H)!!!

If there is one thing I love, it is chocolate chip pancakes. If there are 7 things I love, they would be chocolate chip pancakes and the words "Who", "What", "When", "Where", "Why", and "How". You might be asking me "what" do these words mean? Or "why
" are you so annoying? Or even "how" are you allowed to have a blog? Come with me, and I'll take you on a journey into the world of these magical words and how they give us glorious, glorious context.

"Who" represents the cases of the data, the people or things that are having data recorded on them. An example would be if you surveyed all of Arkham Asylum on their least favorite Bat theme superhero, the villains in Arkham would be the "who".
"What" represents what the data is about. Referencing the previous example, the what would be the bat themed superhero. This would be considered categorical because it is a quality, not something measured or counted. There is also quantitative, which is counted or measured values.
"When" is the time the data was collected, such as today, last night, or tomorrow with a time machine.
"Where" is the location of collection, this could be outside a store, at the park, a prison, or even someone else's house!
"Why" represents the reason for collection. A reason why could be for fun, but usually there are better ones. For example if you were researching donkeys and collected data on donkey hair, the why would be to advance your research.
"How" sucks because it isn't a W.. Ok not really. How is simply... How the data was collected. This could be a survey or an experiment or any number of things!

And that's the story. Now you know.