Compiling vs Collecting - What's the difference?
compiling | collecting |
A hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.
* 2009 , Melissa A Hardy, ?Alan Bryman, Handbook of Data Analysis (page 568)
As verbs the difference between compiling and collecting
is that compiling is while collecting is .As a noun collecting is
a hobby including seeking, locating, acquiring, organizing, cataloging, displaying, storing, and maintaining whatever items are of interest to the individual collector.collecting
English
(wikipedia collecting)Noun
- The task of data gathering is not a random walk, a sensual search, or the bemused collectings of a beachcomber.