It is missing definition of "atom" (at least the page referred to); is it the basic piece of information?
It is also seems that "numeric" is continuous (temperature, fin data) and "categoric" and "ordinal" are discrete (words, ratings). As such all these data types will be more naturally categorized along 3 dimensions: - continuous, discrete - ordered, unordered - data dimensionality (1d, 2d, 3d) -- On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote: > Is this a fair breakdown of data classes? > > http://smlv.cc.gatech.edu/2010/03/23/a-taxonomy-of-data-types/ > > (btw everything tagged DAVA is interesting) > > -- > Lance Norskog > [email protected] > -- ksh:
