Recap: List of Topics

Descriptive Statistics

Probability Theory

Inferential Statistics

Different types of data

Different types of plots

Measures of centrality and spread

Sample spaces, events, axioms

Discrete and continuous RVs

Bernoulli, Uniform, Normal dist.

Sampling strategies

Interval Estimators

Hypothesis testing (z-test, t-test)

ANOVA, Chi-square test

Linear Regression

What are the different types of data?

How do we describe qualitative data?

Learning Objectives

How do we describe quantitative data?

How do we describe relationships between attributes?

What are the different types of data?

Nominal

Ordinal

Discrete

Continuous

Qualitative

Quantitative

Data

Types of Data

Color

Pattern

Size

Rating

Price

Discount

385

315.99

525.50 7.5%

30.5%

20%

Types of Data (example from e-commerce)

Color:

Pattern:

Size:

Rating:

Qualitative or categorical attributes are those which describe the object under consideration using a finite set of discrete classes

Qualitative Data

Color:

Pattern:

Nominal attributes are those qualitative attributes in which there is no natural ordering in the values that an attribute can take.

There is no natural ordering in these attributes

Qualitative Data: Nominal

Size:

Rating:

Ordinal attributes are those qualitative attributes in which there is a natural ordering in the values that an attribute can take

There is a natural ordering in these attributes

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Qualitative Data: Ordinal

Nominal

Employee

Ordinal

Healthcare

Agriculture

Government

Gender

(M, F, Other)

Income Range

(Low, Med, High)

Disease

(Non-)Communicable

Health Risk

(Low, Med, High)

Crop Type

(Kharif, Rabi)

Farm Type

(Small, Med, Large)

Nationality

(Indian, Chinese, etc)

Opinion

(Agree, Neutral, Disagree)

Ordinal and Nominal Data: examples

Price:

No. of Buttons:

385

525.50

12

15

17 Days for Delivery:

Discount:

2

4

5 7.5%

30.5%

20%

All of the above attributes have numerical values

Quantitative Data

315.99

Whole Numbers:

0, 1, 2, 3 ...

(No Fractions, No negatives)

Integers:

Rational Numbers:

Irrational Numbers:

Real Numbers:

-5, -4, -3...0...3, 4, 5 (No Fractions)

Ratio of 2 integers (1/2, 1/3, 2/1, 3/1)

Cannot be expressed as ratio of 2 integers (π, √2)

Quick Recap of types of numbers

Rational + Irrational

Whole Numbers

0, 1, 2, 3

-4, -3...0...3, 4

(1/2, 1/3, 3/1)

Integers

Rational Numbers

Real Numbers

Irrational Numbers

Real Numbers

Quick Recap of types of numbers

(\pi, \sqrt2)

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Quantitative attributes are those which have numerical values and which are used to count or measure certain properties of a population

Quantitative Data

Price:

No. of Buttons:

385

525.50

12

15

17 Days for Delivery:

Discount:

2

4

5 7.5%

30.5%

20%

315.99 Discrete attributes are those quantitative attributes which can take on only a finite number of numerical values (Integers)

Quantitative Data: Discrete

No. of Buttons:

12

15

17 Days for Delivery:

2

4

5 Continuous attributes refer to quantitative attributes which can take on fractional values (Real Numbers)

Quantitative Data: Continuous

Price:

385

525.50 Discount:

7.5%

30.5%

20%

315.99 Continuous

Discrete

income tax, gross salary

# projects, # family members

cholesterol level, sugar level

days of treatment,

weeks of pregnancy

Total yield, acres

# of Farmers,

# of crops farmed

GDP, GST, CGST

# of Citizens,

# of Villages

Discrete & Continuous Data:examples

Employee

Healthcare

Agriculture

Government

Ratings

Very

Poor

Okay

Good

Very Good

1

2

3

4

5 Why is this not discrete (quantitative)?

Although expressed as numbers the notion of distance here is not well-defined

VP

P

OK

G

VG

The distance b/w G & VG may not be the same as the distance between G & OK although the difference in the numeric rating may be the same

Ordinal (qualitative) v/s Discrete (quantitative)

The type of statistical analysis depends on the type of variable

Qualitative Attributes

What is the average color of all shirts in my catalogue?

What is the average nationality of students in this course?

What is the frequency of the color red?

Why bother about data types?

Qualitative Attributes

Regression Analysis

ANalysis Of VAriance (ANOVA)

Chi-square test

Why bother about data types?

The type of statistical analysis depends on the type of variable

Quantitative (Discrete) Attributes

What is the average value in the dataset?

What is the frequency of a given value?

What is the spread of the data?

Regression Analysis

Why bother about data types?

The type of statistical analysis depends on the type of variable

52.35, 54.85, 62.10, 73. 25, 58.72, 56.15, 62.45, 68.75, 69.35, 73.50, 74.45, 75.30, 53.45, 57.75

Why bother about data types?

The type of statistical analysis depends on the type of variable

Quantitative (Continuous) Attributes

What is the average value in the dataset?

What is the frequency of a given value?

What is the spread of the data?

Regression Analysis

Nominal

Ordinal

Discrete

Continuous

Qualitative

Quantitative

Data

Summary: Types of Data

Exercise: Find examples of each type data of in the following domains: banking, insurance, education, healthcare, government, retail, sports, agriculture, automobile

How to describe qualitative data?

The values of categorial data types keep repeating in the data

bowled, lbw, caught, lbw, bowled, lbw, caught, caught

Repeating values

kharif, rabi, rabi, kharif, all-season, kharif, all-season

red, green, green, yellow, blue, red, blue, yellow, green, blue

How many times does the color red appear?

How many times does lbw appear ?

The count of the total number of times a value appear in the data is called its frequency

Frequency of a value

How many kharif crops are there in our data ?

Match #	Runs	Mins	Strike Rate	Pos	Dismissal	Oppn	Ground	Date
0	0	0	0.00	5	caught	Pakistan	Gujranwala	18 Dec 1989
1	0	2	0.00	5	caught	New Zealand	Dunedin	1 Mar 1990
2	36	51	92.3	6	caught	New Zealand	Wellington	6 Mar 1990
3	10	15	63.33	5	run out	Sri Lanka	Sharjah	25 Apr 1990
4	20	31	60.00	7	caught	Pakistan	Sharjah	27 Apr 1990
5	19	38	54.28	4	bowled	England	Leeds	18 Jul 1990
... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...
... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...

Dismissal and Opposition are Categorical attributes

Example: Sachin Tendulkar ODIs

Match #	Runs	Mins	Strike Rate	Pos	Dismissal	Oppn	Ground	Date
0	0	0	0.00	5	caught	Pakistan	Gujranwala	18 Dec 1989
1	0	2	0.00	5	caught	New Zealand	Dunedin	1 Mar 1990
2	36	51	92.3	6	caught	New Zealand	Wellington	6 Mar 1990
3	10	15	63.33	5	run out	Sri Lanka	Sharjah	25 Apr 1990
4	20	31	60.00	7	caught	Pakistan	Sharjah	27 Apr 1990
5	19	38	54.28	4	bowled	England	Leeds	18 Jul 1990
... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...
... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...	... ...

Example: Sachin Tendulkar ODIs

How often did Sachin get bowled?

Against which team did he score centuries?

Type of dismissal

Frequency

Caught

... (258)

Bowled

... (68)

Not Out

... (40)

lbw

... (39)

Frequency Tables

... ...

Opposition

Centuries

Australia

(9)

Sri Lanka

(8)

New Zealand

(5)

Pakistan

(5)

Frequency Tables

#centuries v/s opposition

type of dismissal

Horizontal Axis: values of the categorical attribute

Vertical Axis: Counts of these values

Height of bar proportional to count

Frequency Plots

How many farms have planted rice?

How many crops grow during the Kharif season?

State_Name	Crop_Year	Season	Crop	Area	Production
Andaman & Nicobar	2000	Kharif	Arecanut	1254.0	2000
Andaman & Nicobar	2000	Kharif	Other Kharif Pulses	2.0	1
Andaman & Nicobar	2000	Kharif	Rice	102.0	321
Andaman & Nicobar	2000	Whole Year	Banana	176.0	641
Assam ...
....

Maharashtra

Tamil Nadu
Tamil Nadu

Example: Agriculture

Categorical

Which is the 7th most grown crop in the country?

Example: Agriculture (Frequency Plots)

Hard to answer

Sort the values by their counts for better visualisation

Example: Agriculture (Frequency Plots)

Long Tailed Distribution

- A large number of tall bars at the beginning

- A large number of short bars at the end

- Very common in many real world scenarios

Frequency Plots (Long-Tailed Distributions)

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Frequency v/s crop type

Long Tailed Distribution

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Frequency Plots (Long-Tailed Distributions)

- Very common in many real world scenarios

Languages spoken in India

#People (x 100 million)

Long Tailed Distribution

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Frequency Plots (Long-Tailed Distributions)

- Very common in many real world scenarios

Cities in India

#People (x 10 million)

Frequency Plots (Uniform Distributions)

All bars have equal height

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Die Faces

Frequency

Frequency Plots

Exercise: Think of examples of categorical data which have long-tailed or uniform distributions in each of the following domains: banking, insurance, education, healthcare, government, retail, sports, agriculture, automobile

Frequency Plots (some inadequacies)

Frequency v/s crop type

What percentage of farms grow groundnut?

Hard to answer

Solution: Use relative frequency plots

Opposition	Frequency	Relative Frequency
Austraila	9
Sri Lanka	8
South Africa	5
Pakistan	5
Zimbabwe	5
New Zealand	5
Kenya	4
West Indies	4
England	2
Namibia	1
Bangladesh	1
Total	49

(9/49) = 0.184

Relative Frequencies are easier to interpret than absolute frequencies

Relative Frequency Tables

(8/49) = 0.163

(5/49) = 0.102

(4/49) = 0.081

(2/49) = 0.041

(1/49) = 0.020

Relative Frequencies are easier to interpret than absolute frequencies

Relative Frequency Plots

Country

% of centuries

Relative Frequencies are easier to interpret than absolute frequencies

Relative Frequency Plots

What percentage of farms grow groundnut?

Easy to answer!

Crop

Relative Frequency

Compare different sets of data

Each bar corresponds to one set

Grouped Frequency Bar Charts

Has the farming pattern changed across years?

Grouped (Rel.) Frequency Charts

Has the farming pattern changed across years?

Earlier plot suggested that rice is no longer popular but this plot reveals the true picture

Feed 100 images of horses and giraffes

Count number of errors of each type

ML Algorithm

Horse

or

Giraffe

Image

Classification System

Frequency Plots in ML

1. Analysing errors in ML systems

Evaluation

Need more giraffe images for training ?

ML Algorithm

Horse

or

Giraffe

Image

Classification System

G

H

5

25 G

H

15 Need more horse images for training ?

G

H

5

25 Frequency Plots in ML

1. Analysing errors in ML systems

ML System

or

Sample Review

Typically we feed words from the review to the ML system

Which words to give as input?

Frequency Plots in ML

2. Designing features for a ML system

Frequency charts can help us identify discriminatory words

Frequency Plots in ML

2. Designing features for a ML system

How to describe quantitative data?

Primary Question:

What is the frequency of different categories?

Does the same question make sense for quantitative data?

Recap: Describing qualitative data

How many times did he get out on 0 or 49 or 99?

What are the frequencies of the values 0, 49, 99 ?

Example: Sachin Tendulkar ODIs

or

Primary Question:

What is the frequency of different values?

Values on the x-axis are now numbers instead of categories

There is a natural ordering of the values on the x-axis

Sort by value instead of frequency

Histograms

Runs

# Matches

What would the histogram of Sachin's scores look like?

Where would the tallest bar be?

Would there be some regions on the x-axis which would have a bar height of 0?

Histograms

Runs

# Matches

Looks like between 1 to 100, the only lucky numbers for Sachin were 56, 58, 59, 75, 76 and 92!!!

Histograms

Runs

# Matches

Too many unique values on the x-axis

Difficult to answer: How many times was he dismissed in 90s or single-digit scores?

Issues

Histograms

Runs

# Matches

Group values into bins: 0-9, 10-19...

Each bin will now show the sum of the frequencies of all values in it

Solution

Histograms

Runs

# Matches

The plot is now much easier to visualise although it hides some details (such as how many times did he score exactly 0 ?)

Histograms

Runs

# Matches

Bin Size: 10

What about a bin size or class interval of 5?

1

10

Bin size (class interval)

Histograms (what is the right bin size?)

Bin Size: 10

Runs

# Matches

What about a bin size of 5? (too many bins?)

So should we just use a larger bin-size? 20, 40?

Histograms (what is the right bin size?)

Runs

# Matches

Bin Size: 5

As we increase the bin size the granularity is compromised with very few details

Bin Size: 20

Bin Size: 40

Histograms (what is the right bin size?)

Runs

# Matches

Both extremes are bad

Histograms (what is the right bin size?)

Bin Size: 1

Bin Size: 100

Bin size 1, 10, 100 or even 1000

Bin size: 10000

Total yield: 0 to 579441

Class interval or bin size also depends on the range of the data

Example: Agriculture (right bin size?)

Bin Size: 10000

Total yield

# Farms

Total Yield of Rice in Uttar Pradesh

Bin Size: 1

Bin Size: 10

Histograms (what is the right bin size?)

Ideal bin size reveals meaningful patterns (neither hides not reveals too many details)

Bin Size: 100

Strike rate: Continuous attribute with fractional values

Histograms (for continuous data)

No interesting patterns since most of the values repeat only once

How about showing all unique values on the x-axis? (just as we did for bin size 1 for discrete data)

Histograms (for continuous data)

Strike Rate

# Matches

Use bins or class intervals instead

Choosing the right bin size can reveal interesting patterns

Bin Size: 10

Histograms (for continuous data)

Better approach

Strike Rate

# Matches

Choosing the right bin size can reveal interesting patterns

Histograms (for continuous data)

Bin Size: 20

Use bins or class intervals instead

Strike Rate

# Matches

Bowler economy rate: Continuous attribute with fractional values

What is the right bin (class interval) size?

Example: Zaheer Khan bowler economy rate (right bin size?)

Bin Size 5: 0-5, 5-10, 10-15,...

Bin Size 3: 0-3, 3-6, 6-9,..

Bin Size 2: 0-2, 2-4, 4-6,...

Bin size 1: 0-1, 1-2, 2-3,....

Example: Zaheer Khan economy

Economy Rate

# Matches

0-2, 2-4, 4-6,...

Where does the value of 4.0 go? (4-6)

What about class boundaries?

Economy Rate

# Matches

Bin Size: 2

Left-end-inclusion convention: A class interval contains its left end boundary but not its right end boundary

Bin Size: 2

What about class boundaries?

Economy Rate

# Matches

Sort the values in increasing order

Choose the class intervals such that all values are covered (in particular, the minimum and maximum values should be covered, it's okay if there are some intervals without values)

Compute frequency of each interval

Draw bars for each interval (such that the height of the bars are proportional to the frequencies computed in the previous step)

Histograms (summary of procedure)

In what percentage of matches did Sachin score less than 10 runs?

Bin Size: 10

Histograms (what about percentages?)

Runs

# Matches

A bit difficult to answer

In what percentage of matches did Sachin score less than 10 runs?

Relative Frequency Histograms

Runs

% of Matches

~31%

Sachin Tendulkar

Relative Histograms are useful when one wants to compare different sets of data

Ricky Ponting

Relative Frequency Histograms

Runs

# of Matches

Looks like Sachin has more low-scores (0-20) than Ponting (~200 v/s ~160)

But hey, Sachin also played more ODIs! (463 v/s 370)

Sachin Tendulkar

Ricky Ponting

Relative Frequency Histograms

Runs

# of Matches

Almost no difference in the % of low scores (0-20)

Sachin Tendulkar

Ricky Ponting

Relative Frequency Histograms

Runs

% of Matches

What about Virat Kohli?

Runs

% of Matches

Relative Frequency Histograms

Better (43% v/s 37%)

Sachin Tendulkar

Virat Kholi

Rel. Freq. Histograms (procedure)

Sort the values in increasing order

Choose the class intervals such that all values are covered (in particular, the minimum and maximum values should be covered, it's okay if there are some intervals without values)

Compute relative frequency of each interval

Draw bars for each interval (such that the height of the bars are proportional to the relative frequencies computed in the previous step)

How to compare histograms of mult. players?

Comparing Multiple Histograms

Option1: Draw indiv. histograms and compare!

A bit hard to visualise and compare

Runs

# of Matches

Sachin Tendulkar

Ricky Ponting

Brian Lara

Virat Kohli

How to compare histograms of mult. players?

Comparing Multiple Histograms

Option2: Draw all histograms in one plot

Hard to distinguish between indiv. histograms

Runs

# of Matches

How to compare histograms of mult. players?

Comparing Multiple Histograms

Option3: Draw grouped bar charts

Hard to see the overall trend for each player

Runs

# of Matches

How to compare histograms of mult. players?

Comparing Multiple Histograms

Option4: Use frequency polygons

Runs

# of Matches

Sachin Tendulkar

- Sort the values

- Choose the class intervals

- Compute frequency of each interval

- Compute mid-point of each interval

- Plot the frequency above the midpoint

Frequency Polygons

Runs

# of Matches

Can distinguish between players

Can see and compare overall trends for different players

Frequency Polygons

Runs

# of Matches

Relative Frequency Polygons

Runs

% of Matches

Relative frequency polygons are easier to compare

Comparing the histograms of "Total yield" of farms in 3 different states

Frequency Polygons (for continuous data)

total yield

# of farms

Cumulative Frequency Polygons

Runs

# of Matches

In how many matches did Sachin score less that 30?

Easy to answer with a cumulative frequency polygon

For each class interval also add the sum of the frequencies of all class intervals before it

Cumulative Relative Freq. Polygons

Runs

% of Matches

In what percentage of matches did Sachin score less than 30?

Easy to answer with a cumulative relative frequency polygon

Same as before except that we now use relative frequencies as opposed to absolute frequencies

Multiple Cumul. Rel. Frq. Polygons

Runs

% of Matches

Easier to compare multiple sets of data (payers in this case)

How far are the values in the data spread out?

Is the data density high in certain intervals?

Are there gaps in the data? (i.e., are there certain intervals that do not contain any data)

Are there outliers in the data? (i.e., values which are very far from the typical values)

Typical trends in histograms

The data spreads out from 0-200

Data is concentrated in the intervals 0 to 40

No data values in regions between 150- 200

The highest score of 200 is an outlier (very far from the typical values in the data)

Typical trends in histograms

Sachin Tendulkar

Left-skewed-histogram: Most of the short bars are towards the left of the histogram

Typical trends in histograms

Units

Frequency

Average Strike Rate

Frequency

Units

Frequency

Runs

Frequency

Right-skewed-histogram: Most of the short bars are towards the right of the histogram

Class Intervals of runs

Rel. Frequency

Production

Frequency

Typical trends in histograms

Uniform-histogram: Most of the bars are of a similar height

Die faces

Frequency

Typical trends in histograms

Units

Frequency

Age

Frequency

Symmetric-histogram: Bars are almost mirrored images of each other about the vertical median line

Symmetric

Almost Symmetric

Typical trends in histograms

1. Identifying discriminatory features

Use of histograms in ML

ML System

Age

Height Weight

Cholesterol

Sugar

Health Risk

No Health Risk

Age	Height	....	Risk

...	...	...

Risk

No Risk

Max Heart Rate

Suppose the trends for "max heart rate" are very different for "risk" and "no risk patients" a good discriminatory feature

1. Identifying discriminatory features

Use of histograms in ML

Plot the histograms of freq. polygons for "max heart rate" for "risk and "no risk" patients

Then "max heart rate" is a good discriminatory feature

Risk

No Risk

Height

2. Analysing output scores

Chatbot

"What's the temperature outside"

It is very hot. 38°C

I am not a temp variable

Current chatbots are nowhere close to satisfactory

Use of histograms in ML

Chatbot

"What's the temperature outside"

Good

Bad

(Let a human take over)

"I am not a temp variable"

ML

SYSTEM

Solution: Let a human take over when the output is bad

2. Analysing output scores

Use of histograms in ML

Chatbot

"What's the temperature outside"

Good

Bad

(Let a human take over)

"I am not a temp variable"

ML

SYSTEM

Question: Suppose someone develops such a system, how would you check if it is good?

2. Analysing output scores

Use of histograms in ML

Answer: Take 50 good and 50 bad responses and see the histogram of the system's scores

2. Analysing output scores

Use of histograms in ML

Question: Suppose someone develops such a system, how would you check if it is good?

In our research, we analysed one such system and found that it did a pretty bad job

2. Analysing output scores

Use of histograms in ML

[40, 175, 10, 69, 43, 96, 8, 4, 200, 7, 24, 28, 120, 38, 27, 111, 2, 53, 85, 18, 2, 48, 15, 3, 22, 14, 39, 6, 114, 52]

Sachin's scores in his last 30 ODIs

69

85 Stem

Leaf

6

9

8

5 Efficient way of describing small to medium data

96

111

9

6

11

1 Stem and leaf plots

[2, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 14, 15, 18, 22, 24, 27, 28, 38, 39, 40, 43, 48, 52, 53, 69, 85, 96, 111, 114, 120, 175, 200]

Sachin's scores in his last 30 ODIs

Stem and leaf plots

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11 Stem

Leaf

12 2234678

0458

2478

89

038

23

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5

6

14

0 Efficient way of describing small to medium data

[58.82, 124.11, 58.82, 109.52, 82.69, 92.3 , 100. , 80. , 136.05, 63.63, 54.54, 96.55, 104.34, 67.85, 122.72, 109.9 , 50. , 77.94, 73.91, 128.57, 33.33, 76.19, 62.5 , 25. , 95.65, 93.33, 130. , 31.57, 77.55, 108.33]

Sachin's strike rate in his last 30 ODIs

Stem and leaf plots(for continuous data)

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11 Stem

Leaf

12

5

23 0599

248

03 2367

00

349

13

06

048 4688

58.82

63.63 Stem

Leaf

5

9

6

4

82.69

92.3

8

3

9

2 What if the data contains bigger values?

Stem and leaf plots(for larger values)

What if the data contains bigger values?

1 leaf digit

Stem and leaf plots(for larger values)

17952

18059

19375

19873

20569

21088

22046

22664

29731

35764

Stem

Leaf

36552

3

6

8

6

1

4

3

9 46799

8

3

7

0 Stem and leaf plots(for larger values)

What if the data contains bigger values?

4 leaf digit

17

18

19

20

21

22

29

35 Stem

Leaf

36 9523

0596

5696

0887

7313

7643

7798

46 5529

0461 6644

3750 8738

What if the a row has many values?

012, 019, 038, 123, 156, 198, 222, 234, 297, 312, 333, 367, 425, 445, 472

537, 551, 577, 621, 637,, 691, 711, 768, 821, 844, 956, 988, 991

(Leaves starting with digits 0-4)

(Leaves starting with digits 5-9)

Stem and leaf plots(splitting rows)

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S&L plot looks like a histogram rotated on its side

More informative: displays within group values

Stem and leaf plot v/s Histogram

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11 Stem

Leaf

12 2234678

0458

2478

89

038

23

9

5

6

14

0

S&L plot not preferred for large datasets (Histogram is better)

Stem and leaf plot v/s Histogram

Displaying individual values makes it easy to spot patterns

Stem

Leaf

1

2 222 5555 888

3 111 4444 777

4

5

6 11 44444 5 7 9

7

8 000 22 444 66 888

Difference of 3

Multiples of 2

Stem and leaf plot v/s Histogram

Used to compare two different sets of data

Stem

Leaf

ODI Scores

Test Scores

Leaf

8875210

30

1

72

1

76 Back to back stem and leaf plots

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12 2234678

0458

2478

89

038

23

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5

6

14 How to describe relationships between variables?

Multiple attributes in datasets

Runs scored

Balls faced

Minutes played

Strike rate

Type of dismissal

State

District

Crop

Area

Yield

Agriculture

Cricket

Color

Pattern

Size

Price

Discount

E-Commerce

Most datasets contain several attributes for a given object

We often expect certain relationships b/w attributes

runs-scored = f(balls-faced)

total-yield = g(total-area)

Multiple attributes in datasets

Runs scored

Balls faced

Minutes played

Strike rate

Type of dismissal

State

District

Crop

Area

Yield

Agriculture

Cricket

Color

Pattern

Size

Price

Discount

price = h(size)

E-Commerce

Individual histograms do not reveal such relationships

Can individual plots reveal relations?

Runs

Frequency

Balls Faced

How does the score of Sachin Tendulkar change as the number of balls faced increases?

Can individual plots reveal relations?

Runs

Frequency

Balls Faced

x-coordinate = balls faced

y-coordinate = runs scored

Scatter plots (for revealing relations b/w variables)

Balls faced

Runs

Not for qualitative variables

2 discrete variables

2 continuous variables

1 continuous 1 discrete variable

Scatter plots (for revealing relations b/w variables)

Area

Production

Balls faced

Runs

Runs

Strike Rate

y = mx + c

y = ax^2

y = e^x

Quick recap of functions

y = mx + c

Linear relationship:

Typical trends in scatter plots

Balls faced

Minutes

Runs

y = ax^2

Quadratic relationship:

Typical trends in scatter plots

y = e^x

exponential relationship:

Typical trends in scatter plots

mixed (Linear + exp) relationship

Typical trends in scatter plots

No clear relation

Typical trends in scatter plots

Height

Weight

1. Identify correlated features

ML System

Age

Height Weight

Cholesterol

Sugar

Health Risk

No Health Risk

Age	Height	....	Risk

...	...	...

Use of scatter plots in ML

Use uncorrelated or non-redundant features for classification