Exploring a New Data Set and Understanding Its Composition Commonly

Multiple Choice

Exploring a new data set and understanding its composition commonly involves the data analytics technique ________, which involves simplifying data to quickly identify the composition of categorical and quantitative values. We compress the data into smaller, easier-to-understand outputs, called data summaries. To do this, we typically group a data set by a specific field, or column.

A) data summarization
B) quantitative values
C) data summaries
D) field, or column