Data maintained in a tabular form, that is, organized into rows and columns in which each column represents a kind of information and each row represents an instance of information. A telephone book can be thought of as tabular data, one column contains a name, another an address, and a third a phone number. Each row contains information of the appropriate type about a particular instance, in this case a telephone customer.
numerical values presented under column headings or in a matrix format of labeled rows and columns.
Data that is stored and manipulated in a digital table, such as a spreadsheet or database.
data in a row and column format.
Related Topics: [ gis] Information which is not specific to a particular location or "point". Typically, such information expands upon the definition of characteristics of a set of GIS elements. For example, a data table would be used to define properties for all geo-referenced elements tagged by a specific name, e.g. all Brookston silt loam elements would obtain their numerical values for infiltration from a soils data table that might also define its chemical properties (and those same properties for all other soil types present in the soils spatial data layer).