Statistical Data

This is the domain of rows and columns. No pictures, no sentences — just a great many numbers, and the patience to find out what they add up to.

1What the domain is

Statistical Data

Statistical Data is the domain of AI concerned with data systems and processes. The system collects numerous data, maintains datasets and derives meaning or sense out of them. The information it extracts is then used to make a decision.

Three domains, three kinds of data

Pick a domain and it rises. What is standing on the pedestal is the data that domain is fed. Drag sideways to turn.

Statistical Data is fed numbers and tables.

Collects large amounts of numerical data, keeps it in datasets, and works out what it means so a decision can be made from it.

Examples: Price comparison websites · Weather and sales prediction · Sports statistics

2The example CBSE uses

Price comparison websites

Sites like PriceGrabber, PriceRunner, Junglee, Shopzilla and DealTime let you see the price of one product from many sellers in one place. They are driven by enormous amounts of data, collected constantly and compared. Nothing there is a picture or a sentence — it is prices, which are numbers.

Other everyday examples of the same domain:

Predicting tomorrow’s weather from years of readings.
A shop forecasting which stock will sell next month.
Cricket statistics predicting a match score.
A bank deciding whether a loan is risky.

The shopkeeper's ledger

A shopkeeper who has kept a notebook for ten years knows without thinking which week sweets sell out and which month umbrellas do. Nobody told her; the numbers did. Statistical Data is that notebook, with a million pages and a machine reading it.

The name changed

Older books call this domain Data Science. The 2026-27 syllabus calls it Statistical Data, and that is the name the paper uses. They mean the same domain.

3From the board papers

Which AI domain would be most suitable for developing a price comparison website?
(A) Computer Vision (B) Natural Language Processing (C) Statistical Data (D) RoboticsCBSE board exam 2026

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(C) Statistical Data. A price comparison website works entirely with numbers — prices collected from many sellers and compared. (Robotics is not one of the three domains at all.)

In Statistical Data, what is the primary function of the system in relation to data?
(A) Generating large datasets (B) Analysing data to extract insights (C) Converting data into images (D) Distributing data across networksCBSE AI Class X textbook, Unit 1

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(B). The system collects and maintains data in order to derive meaning from it. Generating or moving data is not the point; understanding it is.

4Check yourself

Quick Check

A website predicts how many umbrellas a shop will sell next month from ten years of sales records. Which domain?

Quick Check

Which of these is a Statistical Data application named in the CBSE book?

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