Lesson 2: Variables and Data Flashcards
Data that cannot be counted, measured, or easily expressed using numbers.
Qualitative
Information a company collects directly from its customers and owns.
First-party data
Is the process of cleaning, and transforming raw data prior to processing and analysis
data preparation
Is any information collected by an entity that does not have a direct relationship with the user the data is being collected on
third-party data
Indicates how reliable a given dataset is across key dimensions like completeness, consistency, accuracy, and more.
Data Quality
Information all about consumers, from their household, demographic and lifestyle details to their behaviors and buying
Consumers analytics data
A numerical type of data that includes whole, concrete numbers with specific and fixed data values determined by counting
Discrete data
Ensure your data is consistent within the same dataset and/or across multiple datasets.
Consistency
Data that can take any value
Continuous
Data that can be counted or measured in numerical values.
Quantitative
Characteristic of members of a population.
Variables
Observations of variable
Data
Contains variables and observations
Dataset
Numbers with known differences between variables, such as time.
Interval
Numbers that have measurable intervals where difference can be determined such as height or weight.
Ratio