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What’s the Difference: Quantitative vs Qualitative Data

Alation

These terms that cannot aggregate, like a percentage, are often called non-aggregatable metrics. What Is Quantitative Data Analysis? Quantitative analysis can take two forms: the traditional business analysis of numerical data, or the more academic quantitative analysis. Statistics is at the heart of quantitative 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.