Interpret Data - Compare Data Sets (Mode, Range, Shape)From the Archive - Interpret Data – Compare Data Sets (Mode, Range and Shape) . Sets of data can be challenging to interpret as raw statistics. To assist with interpreting a set of data there are statistical methods to summarise the data and have one value represent the data set. The most commonly used term for this summary is average. . Average is a general term rather than a specific statistical method. Often average is thought to be the s