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What’s the Difference: Quantitative vs Qualitative Data

Alation

Quantitative analysis can take two forms: the traditional business analysis of numerical data, or the more academic quantitative analysis. Traditional business analysis uses numerical methods to paint a picture, often through numerical methods, like statistics. What Is the Role of Statistics in Quantitative Data Analysis?

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Data Science, Past & Future

Domino Data Lab

He was saying this doesn’t belong just in statistics. He also really informed a lot of the early thinking about data visualization. It involved a lot of interesting work on something new that was data management. To some extent, academia still struggles a lot with how to stick data science into some sort of discipline.