Covariance and correlation

Next, we're going to talk about covariance and correlation. Let's say I have two different attributes of something and I want to see if they're actually related to each other or not. This section will give you the mathematical tools you need to do so, and we'll dive into some examples and actually figure out covariance and correlation using Python. These are ways of measuring whether two different attributes are related to each other in a set of data, which can be a very useful thing to find out.

Defining the concepts

Imagine we have a scatter plot, and each one of the data points represents a person that we measured, and we're plotting their age on one axis versus their...