Corso Exploring Variables and Field Types

Course delivered in English
Lessons:1
Level: Beginners
Access: Free Online Course (Audit)

Exploring Variables and Field Types will help you gain a greater understanding of the values in your data. This course explains how to classify variables and how different field types can be represented visually.

About this course
In this course, you’ll explore many different types of variables. You’ll learn how qualitative variables are classified, and you’ll gain an understanding of the difference between discrete and continuous variables. You’ll also see how visualizations reveal different data insights depending on the field types used.

Time Estimate:
45 minutes - 1 hour

Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to:

1. Identify different types of variables.
2. Distinguish among nominal qualitative, ordinal qualitative, and quantitative variables.
3. Distinguish between discrete and continuous variables.

Prerequisites

• None.

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