Data Types

These can be exact types such as integer, decimal and currency or approximate types such as floating point.

• Character data types
• Textual data types
• Alphabetic data types
• Numeric data types

Temporal data

• Data that is associated with temperature
• Data that is associated with color or a specific hue
• Data that is associated with time or a specific time period
• Data that is associated with space or a specific location

Geospatial data

• Data with a social media component
• Information without any geographic component
• Information with a geographic or locational component
• Data with a time-based component

Represented either visually or in an audio format.

• Text data

• Media data

• Boolean

• Marketing data

Internal data or external data?
Sales data

• Sales data is internal data as it comes from the organization's own records and databases.
• Sales data is external data as it comes from sources outside of the organisation, such as government websites.

Internal data or external data?

Employee data

• Internal

• External

Internal data or external data?

Government data

• Internal as the government keeps this data secret

• External as the data is openly sourced and can be accessed by anyone

Which of these can help you find datasets?

• Kaggle

• data.gov

• Gov.uk

• Google Dataset Search