"refine the data" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to improve or make more accurate the information or statistics that you are working with. Example: Before presenting our findings, we need to refine the data to ensure its accuracy.
Thankfully, the IEA has for some years now been analysing this and working to refine the data on which its forecasts are based.
If we refine the data even further and evaluate Williams' rebounding on a per-possession level that removes pace as a factor, he rises to the top as one of the elite rebounders at his position.
More crowdsourcers then go in behind those initial recommendations to refine the data.
Following Yin, the pilot case study was conducted to refine the data collection arrangements.
It contains a number of options to refine the data output based upon the paleointensity method (described in the 'Paleointensity metadata' section).
They can be used to refine the data search purely on the existence of some non-specific form of check or correction ('General constraints' section).
Wherever possible, follow-up telephone interviews were used to complete missing information from questionnaires, and this provided further feedback to refine the data-gathering tools.
Every time Markus goes into the field, his team is refining the data, watching the trends, thinking about new movements.
After filtering and refining the data at the headquarters of Mainframe Entertainment, one of the producers, in Vancouver, British Columbia, the production team took that information and superimposed it on computer models of the characters.
"We are constantly refining the data to optimize the experience.
JT, JRC, and RJM refined the data collection protocol and collected the data.
