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Exercise

Identify variable types

It's always useful to start your exploration of a dataset by identifying variable types. The results from this exercise will help you design appropriate visualizations and calculate useful summary statistics later in your analysis.

Instructions
100 XP
  • Explore the evals data once again with the following goals in mind: (1) Identify each variable as numerical or categorical. (2) If numerical, determine if it is discrete or continuous. (3) If categorical, determine if it is ordinal or not.
  • We've created a vector of variable names in the editor called cat_vars. To test your understanding of the data, remove the names of any variables that are not categorical.