The phrase "a data collector" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person or device that gathers data for analysis or research purposes.
Example: "The study relied on a data collector to ensure accurate and comprehensive information was gathered from participants."
Alternatives: "data gatherer" or "information collector".
He got a job as a data collector at Standard & Poor's, through a friend of a friend who knew his story, and worked up to bond analyst.
I am no longer an F.T.C. commissioner, but a lawyer representing companies — including Microsoft — that are concerned about Google's power as a data collector.
After the dissemination phase, a data collector may query any arbitrary set of M ≪ N nodes for their measurement and reconstruct all N readings using CS.
WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission assessed an $800,000 penalty on Tuesday against Spokeo, a data collector that the commission said violated federal law by compiling and selling people's personal information for use by potential employers in screening job applicants.
The two are among the biggest contributors to investment-banking revenues: in debt underwriting alone, they are responsible for 30% of dollar volumes, according to Thomson Financial Services, a data collector.
In fact, it's the top-selling granola brand in natural-foods stores, as ranked by SPINS, a data collector, and the No. 2 branded manufacturer in conventional stores, including places like Target and Costco, according to Bear Naked, which gets its data from ACNielsen.
PROMISE EBF composed of the following employees: a research coordinator, who was the overseer of the entire project, a data manager, in charge of the database, a data collectors' supervisor, whose job was to manage the data collectors, peer supporter supervisors who were responsible for the peer supporters, peer supporters, recruiters and a driver.
Use of a single data collector was a strength which enabled the examination of each system from the outside on a similar basis.
All the prospective data were collected from a database of the department by a specialist data collector.
Some grant funding will also be used to pay for a traffic data collector, which will observe and analyze traffic patterns, according to a city report.
A third data collector was amazed at how little knowledge some women in Katine have about family planning.
