The phrase "as the essential data" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to information that is crucial or fundamental to a particular context or argument.
Example: "The researchers presented their findings, emphasizing the importance of using the results as the essential data for future studies."
Alternatives: "as the critical information" or "as the key data".
In fact, this article and the interpretation of its results raise significant issues as to the essential data that need to be reported in studies of critically ill patients designed to measure physical strength as their outcome.
The ETV data has been proposed as the Essential Terrestrial Data necessary to construct watershed models anywhere in the continental USA (Leonard and Duffy, 2013).
Young's modulus, the Poisson's ratio and the density are essential data as the inputs for the Al electrodes.
It also reflects the urgent need to prioritize strengthening CRVS systems on the post-2015 development agenda, as they provide essential data for analysing and monitoring trends and for developing policies and services for the population.
"It speaks to Twitter's default status as being the essential social data point around television viewing," said Tim Hanlon, founder of media and technology consulting firm Vertere Group.
Using RNAi, about 3500 genes have been annotated as essential (data collected from WormBase [ 10, 11]).
The trusty CRM (customer relationship management) platform, such as Salesforce, has the best intentions of simplifying essential data such as new leads, close dates, support tickets and more.
Due to intellectual property, contractual requirements, unfinished design, or technical issues during final model compilation, the final merged model lacks essential data for contractors such as the trade of each object in the model.
The DASHboard software tool is designed to complement the profiling technique and perform essential data processing tasks such as reading the results of the scan, visualisation, peak quantification and export to Excel (.xls format) for further analysis.
Monitoring must be as unobtrusive as possible, but must also capture essential data to determine if performance goals are being met.
