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The document outlines two main types of data: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative data is numerical and can be further categorized into discrete and continuous types, while qualitative data describes characteristics and can be nominal, ordinal, or binary. Each type of data answers different questions and has specific examples to illustrate their characteristics.

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The document outlines two main types of data: quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative data is numerical and can be further categorized into discrete and continuous types, while qualitative data describes characteristics and can be nominal, ordinal, or binary. Each type of data answers different questions and has specific examples to illustrate their characteristics.

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Types of data

Quantitative
Answers questions such as:
Measures values expressed as numbers.
“How much?” “How long?”
Often associated with measurement units.
“How many?” “How often?”

Discrete Continuous
Values that can only be integers and within some defined range. Any of an infinite number of values in some defined range.

Positive and negative whole numbers A positive or negative whole number with
and zero. a decimal point.
Integers Floating-point
E.g. 101 employees E.g. $1.25

Distinguishes dates and times from


NaN (Not a Number) numeric data.
Datetime
Values that are undefined or unrepresentable. E.g. 4:15 PM

Mostly occurs after a mathematical operation couldn't produce a value.

E.g. the square root of a negative number.

Qualitative
Answers questions such as:
Describes the qualities or characteristics of an observation.
“What?” “Why?”
Cannot easily be expressed using numbers.
“How?” “Which?”

Nominal Binary
Groups observations with the same characteristics but no intrinsic ranking. Only accepts two values: 1, the attribute is present, and 0, it is not present.

E.g. job titles describe employees but can't True or False are used to represent the
String be ordered in a meaningful way.
Boolean data.

1 or 0 are used to represent the data.


Ordinal
Integer E.g. a company's seniority has executive
Similar to nominal except grouped data can be assigned ranks. and non-executive employees.

E.g. education level where PhD ranks


String higher than Master's and so on.

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