This is the "raw material" with which statistics works.
The goal is to gain information, to make decisions, to draw conclusions. "Raw" data conceals its message, we use statistics to reveal it.
Most often, we are concerned with gaining information about something other than what we have collected data about:
In such cases, there is a degree of uncertainty. Statistics (through the mathematics of probability) seeks to measure and quantify that level of uncertainty, letting us know just what we can infer from the data -- and what we can't.