Categorical Univariate Analysis
Learn to perform categorical univariate analysis by examining frequencies and proportions of single categorical variables using Plotly countplots. Understand nominal and ordinal categories, create insightful visualizations, and gain skills to identify data distribution in your datasets for better analytical decisions.
Categorical variables
In this lesson, we will walk through some key plots for categorical univariate analysis, including their advantages and disadvantages. This lesson will add a variety of useful plots to your growing toolkit of visualizations.
A categorical variable is a type of variable that can take on one of a limited number of possible values, such as “black,” “white,” “blue,” or fruit types such as “Apple,” “Pear,” and “Banana.” There is no sense of order here, so we call this a nominal categorical variable. Another example of a categorical variable is a ...