Introduction to Distributions

Gleaning information from a frequency distribution at a glance is a key skill in data science. In this scrollable interactive, we’ll explore the meaning of visual characteristics of distributions, including symmetry, skew, dispersion, and modality, and what they convey about the underlying data.

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Topics

  • distribution
  • histogram
  • frequency
  • modality
  • dispersion
  • spread
  • symmetry
  • skew
  • genomics