Consider a spreadsheet with a field that captures an amount. Instead of the actual amount, the field has a number of interval possibilities, like the ones in the image. What could possibly go wrong?
The choice of software depends on the structure of your research data.
The choice of your research software in part depends on the structure of your data. Here, I will look at the structure of your data. Here, I will show some examples of research data and discuss which software is in my view best suitable to handle them.