September 2017
Beginner
244 pages
5h 20m
English
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Different types of data
Business analysts and data scientists come across many different types of data in their analytics projects. Most data commonly found in academic and industrial projects can be broadly classified into the following categories:
- Cross-sectional data
- Time series data
- Panel data
Understanding what type of data is needed to solve a problem and what type of data can be obtained from available sources is important for formulating the problem and choosing the right methodology for analysis.