The phrase "take data as" is technically correct in written English, but it is not commonly used.
The more natural and common phrasing would be "gather data" or "collect data". Example: For our research project, we will take data as it becomes available and analyze it for trends.
We should not take data as a given, however.
Transposed to the context of statistics, it reads that there is no proper justification for procedures that take data as input and that return a verdict, an evaluation, or some other piece of advice that pertains to the future, or to general states of affairs.
Those who take data as input and create outputs for others.
Different documents Snowden disclosed, published by the Washington Post, indicated that NSA takes data as it transits between Yahoo and Google data centers, an activity reportedly conducted not under Section 702 but under a seminal executive order known as 12333.
Hazan explains: "In machine learning we take data, such as images taken by a cellphone camera, and build an automatic program that can identify future images of the same objects versus others.
Take data transfer as an example.
But as smartphones take data gathering to its extreme, he finds himself among the skeptics.
Further more and economical evaluation was done taken data of locally produced LNG as a comparison.
Taking flowgram data as-is in the analysis of meta-genomic samples would inflate the number of operational taxonomic units (Quince et al., 2011).
The Data Quality Monitoring system in the CMS experiment has been designed for the monitoring of both the online data taking as well as offline data processing, such as reconstruction of data at Tier0.
Like other methods, they're going to take the data as fixed.
