my_digital_garden/4a1s/DAA/PL - Aula 1.md

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21 Setembro 2023 - #DAA

## Types of Data

-Numerical
	- Discrete Data ({1,2,3,...})
	- Continuous Data (\[1, +$\infty$])
- *Categorical* (binary, languages, ...)
- **Ordinal** (ratings of 1 to 5)

*not-scaled
**scaled


>[!example]- Qual o tipo de dado que representa a quantidade de gasóleo?
>Numérico: continuous data

>[!example]- Qual o tipo de dado que representa a nacionalidade?
>Categórico

>[!example]- Qual o tipo de dado que representa a idade?
>Numérico: discreto


## Mean, Median & Mode

>[!hint]+
>A **mean** in math is the average of a data set, found by adding all numbers together and then dividing the sum of the numbers by the number of numbers.

## Standard Deviation & Variance



## Probability Density functions


## Percentiles
  
There are 3 important percentiles:
- 50% - median
- 25% - 1st percentile
- 75% - 3rd percentile

>[!note]+
>These 3 percentiles allow the creation of box plot graphs. These specific graphs allow the discovery and presentation of outliers.

## Covariance & Correlation

>[!hint]+
>**Covariance** measures the direction of a relationship between two variables, while **correlation** measures the strength of that relationship.

Covariance is hard to interpret, thus correlation is used instead.
In a dataset, correlations >0.5 are considerable.

>[!caution] Correlation does not mean causation!


## Practical session of the class: miniconda
IDEs: PyCharm, VS Code, (Jupyter - not recommended)

Depois de instalar o miniconda, correr os seguintes comandos:
- conda create --name daaEnv python=3.10
- conda activate daaEnv
- python --version
- conda install pandas
- conda install xlrd
- conda install xlwt
- conda install matplotlib
- conda install seaborn
- conda install scikit-learn
- conda install jupyterlab
- conda list

## Resource links
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(statistics)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probability_density_function
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covariance
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation