Comparing and Contrasting Data Types

What is numeric data?

• Something that is measurable

• Something that only has numbers

• Data that can be put in categories

• Data that can range from any number

___ is discrete data

• data with any value

• data with only certain values

• data that never stops

• data with only numbers

____ Data is that can take any value within a certain range

• discrete

• categorial

• continuous

• numeric

Select all types of Continuous Data

• weight

• height

• shoes

• values on a dice

This is an example of what type of data

• Numerical

• Categorical

A Pie Chart is an example of which type of data

• Numeric

• Categorical

• Discrete

What if a teacher wanted to create a bar graph? Which type of data would she be collecting?

• Categorical

• Numerical

What if you rolled a dice? Which type of data would you be collecting?

• Discrete

• Continuous

What if you collected everyone's weight over a period of time and then created a line plot using the data. Which types of data would you be using?

• Categorical and Numerical

• Numerical and Continuous

• Numerical and Discrete

• Categorical and Discrete

Numerical Data has two main categories, what are they?

• Discrete and Continuous

• Categorical and Continuous

• Discrete and Categorical