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Types of Data

You can identify and classify different types of data into qualitative or quantitative categories.

A company like Netflix collects data on the movies you watch, which can be classified as qualitative data since it describes attributes or characteristics, and your watch time, which is quantitative data since it can be measured numerically.

In general, data can be categorized into two main types: qualitative and quantitative. Qualitative data is descriptive and includes attributes like colors, genres, or opinions, while quantitative data is numerical and includes values like numbers, amounts, or scales.

Within quantitative data, there are discrete and continuous subcategories. Discrete data represents countable values like the number of movies watched, while continuous data represents measurable values like the time spent watching movies.

Tusaalooyin

• Favorite foodQualitative data
• HeightQuantitative and continuous data
• Number of siblingsQuantitative and discrete data

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