Lecture 1.2 - Introduction and Types of Data - Understanding data

Prof. Usha Mohan
Department of Management Studies
IIT Madras

Learning outcomes:
1. Appreciate how Statistics relies on data.
2. Understand what data is and the purpose of collecting data.
3. Understand the process of data collection and the source of data.
4. Distinguish between Structured and Unstructured data.
5. Appreciate the usefulness of Structured data.
6. Create, download, and manipulate datasets.
7. Work on a subset of a dataset.
8. Identify variables and observations from the dataset and appreciate the difference between having no data and the case when data has value zero in the dataset.
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