It is analyzing the data. Analyzing, analyzing, presenting and analyzing data. So this whole class of just, you know, all the stuff that you might do with data to answer a question or try to figure out what's going on or just to learn about the world, that whole class of things is called statistics. Now an idea that will come up very frequently in statistics is the notion of variability. Variability. In everyday language, variability, it's how much something is, how much does it vary? How much does it change?