Exercises
- Ask five colleagues or classmates to provide a definition for the term data.
a) Record these definitions and notice the similarities among them.
b) In your own words, define the all-encompassing definition of data put forth in this chapter.
c) Indicate the two important aspects of the definition in b).
d) Compare the five definitions of data from your colleagues with the all-encompassing definitions and indicate their similarities and differences.
- In this exercise, we are going to use
covid_impact_on_airport_traffic.csv
. Answer the following questions. This dataset is from Kaggle.com – use this link to see its page:https://www.kaggle.com/terenceshin/covid19s-impact-on-airport-traffic
The key attribute of this dataset is
PercentOfBaseline
, which shows the ratio of air traffic in a specific day compared to a pre-pandemic time range (February 1 to March 15, 2020).a) What is the best definition of the data object for this dataset?
b) Are there any attributes in the...