Types of Data: Categorical vs Numerical Data

In this tutorial, we're going to explore 2 types of data: Categorical Data and Numerical Data.

So, categorical data describes categories or groups. One example is car brands like Mercedes, BMW and Audi – they show different categories. Another instance is answers to yes and no questions. If we ask questions like:
-Are you currently enrolled in a university?
Or
-Do you own a car?
Yes and no would be the two groups of answers that can be obtained.
This is categorical data.

On the other hand, numerical data, as its name suggests, represents numbers. It is further divided into two subsets: discrete and continuous.
Discrete data can usually be counted in a finite matter. A good example would be the number of children that you want to have. Even if you don’t know exactly how many, you are absolutely sure that the value will be an integer such as 0, 1, 2, or even 10.

Continuous data is infinite and impossible to count. For instance, your weight can take on every value in some range!

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[edgerunner__]

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[strahinjastevanovic]

Thanks fro the video.
If we were to transform yes / no to numerical values 1/0 - then we would get discrete data, right ?
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[ෆිල්ම්බලමු]

Can I know some examples of nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio we can build in the study of the difference in consumer preference for arpico products?

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[dhirajbarot]

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[anthonyzeedyk]

So, integers on a number line are discrete within a defined range. The number line itself is continuous.

[kiranbadoni]

Sir why numerical variable is also called continuous variable but not discrete variable

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[pink]

how about age? is it discrete or continuous?

[kiranbadoni]

Sir nominal variable and categorical variable is same right

[avishal]

does suggestion comes under categorical variable

[tejasai]

This is not a video on Numerical vs Categorical. It is Numerical discrete vs Numerical continuous.

[SatishKumar-izrs]

Poor, middle class rich which type of data it is?

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