Data types in Machine Learning

Ashfaq pathan
2 min readFeb 2, 2021

This blog content is all about types of Data presented in a data frame.

So let’s get started

: TYPES OF DATA.

1 Qualitative Data — Categorical Data — Non-Numeric :
Define Categorical Data: ex:
color columns red |blue|green and soo on the value in a row cell
sex columns: male | female value in a row cell

Two subcategories of Qualitative Data

a. Nominal data examples are nouns, with no order to them while
b. Ordinal data examples come with a level of order.

2 Quantitative Data — Numeric :
Define Quantitative Data: ex: Quantitative data is the type of data whose value is measured in the form of numbers or counts.

Two subcategories of Quantitative Data

a. Discrete is information that can only take certain values. ...
b. Continuous data is data that can take any value. Height, weight, temperature, and length are all examples of continuous data.

Following is a graphical representation of data types…..

: STRUCTURED VS UNSTRUCTURED DATA.

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Ashfaq pathan
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