Understanding Datasets and Analytics

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A collection of data that may exist for private use or be shared publicly.

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What is a dataset?

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A physician’s patient dataset, which includes patient demographics, test results, diagnosis, and appointment schedules.

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What is an example of a private dataset?

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The World Health Organization (WHO) open data repository containing health-related statistics.

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What is an example of a publicly available dataset?

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Information about a dataset, including a description of its contents and formatting.

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What is metadata?

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A common format used to package and exchange data, often used for publicly available datasets.

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What is the Comma Separated Values (CSV) format?

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An analysis that uses historical data to identify key characteristics and summarize past events.

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What is descriptive analytics?

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Ask a historical question, identify required data, collect and prepare data, analyze data, present results.

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What is the process of descriptive analytics?

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Summarizing historical events, understanding engagement data, reporting general trends, collating survey results.

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What are examples of descriptive analytics?

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An analysis that uses real-time and past data to make predictions based on probabilities.

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What is predictive analytics?

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Ask a forward-thinking question, collect and prepare data, develop predictive models, apply models, review and present results.

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What is the process of predictive analytics?