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View more at www.MathAndScience.com. In this lesson, you will learn what the median of a data set is, why the median is important, and how it differs from the mean and the mode of a data set. Also, we will practice calculating the median and interpreting the result. In order to find the median, we arrange the numbers from least to greatest, the look for the numerical value that lies in the center of the data set. The center value is then the median. If we have an even number of data points, then we won't have a single center value. In that case, look for the two values that lie in the center and average them to find the median. We prefer to use the median when outliers are present in the data set.