Data Types

What they are and what you can do with them

Levels of measurement 

Nominal, Ordinal, Interval and Ratio

Nominal Pertaining to names; Named categories

Ordinal Numbers assigned to place groups and items in a certain order; Order

Interval Numeric, has no meaningful 0 point 

Ratio Like interval data except it does have a meaningful 0 point

Qualitative and Quantitative Data

Qualitative Non-numeric data 

Quantitative Numeric data and quantifiable 

Discrete Counted 

Continuous Measured 

Reflection

I found this lecture pod useful as I learnt about the types of data there are and what you can do with them. I also learnt how to distinguish these types of data between them all.