types of data alrightif you want to be data scientistwe need to talk about the types of data that you might encounterhow to categorize themand how you might treat them differently let' dive into the different flavors of data you might encounterthis will seem pretty basicbut we've got to start with the simple stuff and we'll work our way up to the more complicated data mining and machine learning things it is important to know what kind of data you're dealing with because different techniques might have different nuances depending on what kind of data you're handling sothere are several flavors of dataif you willand there are three specific types of data that we will primarily focus on they arenumerical data categorical data ordinal data againthere are different variations of techniques that you might use for different types of dataso you always need to keep in mind what kind of data you're dealing with when you're analyzing it