mode finallywe'll talk about mode this doesn' really come up too often in practicebut you can' talk about mean and median without talking about mode all mode meansis the most common value in dataset let' go back to my example of the number of kids in each house how many of each value are there the mode is if just look at what number occurs most frequentlyit turns out to be and the mode therefore of this data is the most common number of children in given house in this neighborhood is no kidsand that' all that means now this is actually pretty good example of continuous versus discrete databecause this only really works with discrete data if have continuous range of data then can' really talk about the most common value that occursunless quantize that somehow into discrete values so we've already run into one example here where the data type matters mode is usually only relevant to discrete numerical dataand not to continuous data lot of real-world data tends to be continuousso maybe that' why don' hear too much about modebut we see it here for completeness there you have itmeanmedianand mode in nutshell kind of the most basic statistics stuff you can possibly dobut hope you gained little refresher there in the importance of choosing between median and mean they can tell very different storiesand yet people tend to equate them in their headsso make sure you're being responsible data scientist and representing data in way that conveys the meaning you're trying to represent if you're trying to display typical valueoften the median is better choice than the mean because of outliersso remember that let' move on