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Associations and Correlations

You're reading from   Associations and Correlations Unearth the powerful insights buried in your data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2019
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ISBN-13 9781838980412
Length 134 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lee Baker Lee Baker
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Visualizing the Story of Your Data

When you have many relationships between the variables in your dataset, it can be difficult, if not impossible, to hold it in your mind. It's not usually difficult to visualize the story of the data for varA; after all, just how many causal (or rather perceived causal) connections can there be for a single variable? However, when you pull the whole thing together, it can rapidly get away from you. Here's where you need to be able to build a visual representation of all the relationships in the dataset, and I'll present a couple of possibilities to you here.

Node-Link Diagrams

So far, you've investigated the relationships with varA and you have the story of the data for varA (Figure 6.4). Similarly, you've done the same for varB (Figure 6.10), varC (Figure 6.12), and so on, and it's now time to pull the whole thing together; see Figure 6.13.

Figure 6.13: Node-link diagram of the relationships between varA, varB, and varC
Figure 6.13: Node-link diagram of the relationships between varA, varB...
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