In this paper, we analyze the reading and the interpretation of "ready data". We consider ready-data the information collected from the Internet, such as graphs or a mathematical formulas, without explanation of how they were generated. With this idea in mind, we re-think the mosaic of the research carried out by our research group, GPIMEM. This group has been conducting research on modeling and informatics for about 20 years. In the analysis, we focused on oral and written reports of a group of students from the Biological Science course at the State University of São Paulo (UNESP). The ready-data suggest a new facet in the relationship between digital technologies and modeling: they seem to be treated by students identically to the way they treat "empirical data" usually collected in other modeling projects, found in the literature. The mosaic of research about this theme acquires new dimensions since the Internet seems to modify the very notion of what data are.
Mathematics Education; Information and Communication Technology; Informatics; Reading and Interpretation of Statistical Graphs; Ideology of Certainty
