How to perform descriptive statistical analytics
Would it be good to summarize your data using a few numbers and graphs? That's what I'll be talking about in this article. We'll be using descriptive statistics to describe our data. What do I mean by describing data? Here's what I mean: Understanding measures of central tendency for our data. Measure dispersion of our data. Using frequency tables and scatter plots to gain insight. Understanding Measures of central tendency: Remember studying about mean, median, and mode in high school? We use these measures to summarize our data with a single value. The idea is to find a number that best represent all the numbers we have in a data set. Let's discuss each one of these measures for better understanding. Mean : Sum of all values / Number of values example : data = 1,3,5,4,2 ...