- Background
- What is the data about?
- Who collected the data?
- How was the data collected?
- Content
- How many records/rows are there?
- What does each record/row represent?
- How many fields/columns are there?
- What does each field/column mean?
- What are the units?
- Transformations
- How clean is the data?
- What transformations might you need to make to the data before you can use it?