Data? I just Met her
Celsius Temperature
Interval and Continuous
When text is all you have, this is the best option!
Word Cloud
When I'm looking at a data set and want to know the average, median, max and min I'm doing this type of descriptive analytic
Summary Statistics
I want to use headcount to predict payroll expense. In this situation what type of variable is headcount?
Independent variable
Name two of Gestalt's principles of visual perception
Proximity - Similarity - Enclosure - Closure - Continuity - Connection
Nominal
I want to show sales over time...
This profiling technique looks at the leading digit in naturally occurring data and finds that 1 shows up more than 2 and 2 more than 3.....and so on
I want to use past data to predict which category a new customer will fall into. The categories are good and bad. What type of analytic should I use?
Classification
A technique that would help you find Ryan Gosling in a user listing even if it was listed as Gosling, Ryan or R. Gosling
Fuzzy Logic
Football scores
Ratio and Discrete
I need to understand the relationship between labor hours and utilities expense
Scatter Plot
I have millions of rows of data, but I want to only look at the data pertaining to a specific product. I should use this technique....
Data Reduction
I am using temperature data and labor hours to predict heating costs. I'm using what type of analytic?
When do you us a 3d pie chart?
Never...never ever.....promise me you won't do it
Olympic Medals
Ordinal
I want to quickly compare the quantities sold by city...there are like forty, so don't use a bar chart
Symbol Map
I want to find natural groupings in my data...currently I see none. What analytic could help me?
Regression and classification are both predictive analytics that fall under this broad category of machine learning
Supervised
This type of clustering begins by having each data point in its own cluster...i.e. there are 500 data points and 500 clusters
Hierarchical - Agglomerative
Money
Ratio and Continuous
I want to compare revenue by product but also show the breakdown of each products sales by state
Stacked Bar Chart
What type of clustering does Tableau perform?
K-Means
This type of regression typically gives you dichotomous categorical outcomes such as yes and no.
Logistics Regression
Your numerical axis should always start with
0!