^Collect ~table~

1. ^Choose a range: a ~list~ of concepts, of ideas or, of impressions of our world. 
2. ^Name or ^Express a worksheet. 
   1. ^Write a ~list~ of questions applicable to each element in range. 
   2. ^Minimize key questions to make each worksheet unique, like ^Name and Date. 
   3. Modest (^Moderate) amount of other information appropriate to the means of gathering data. 
3. For each element in a range, find ^Space to fill out one worksheet. 
   1. Ask each question and provide an ^Honest answer. 
4. Organize the answers of several worksheets into a tabular format. 
   1. A header row that has a ~name~ for each question. 
   2. Each named question represents one column in the ~table~. 
   3. Each element in the range is represented by a row of the ~table~. 
   4. Each answer to a question for that element is a cell of that row. 

^Table is a mode of ^Write that helps us ^Collect survey answers about anything as structured data.  Organizing data into tables is an inevitable ~process~ for tackling a large or distributed ~problem~ quickly.  In ^Computer science, a collection of tables is called a database, a generic ordinary form of structured data.  However, anytime we ~think~ to add a column or a row, we should ^Consider whether we should ask all those questions about the elements of the range that we are gathering.  And we should ^Consider a ~way~ to do it that does not ^Encourage any harmful form of ~deception~.  ^Consider ~privacy~, ~respect~ and ~PLR~ carefully.  ^Explore third normal form*. 

Anytime we ^Need to ^Consider many elements in our world or in our ~imagination~ whose information is appropriate to track and available to us.