Data-Science-For-Beginners/1-Introduction/03-defining-data/assignment.md

# Classifying Datasets

## Instructions

Follow the prompts in this assignment to identify and classify the data with one of each of the following data types:

**Structure Types**: Structured, Semi-Structured, or Unstructured

**Value Types**: Qualitative or Quantitative 

**Source Types**: Primary or Secondary

1. A company has been acquired and now has a parent company. The data scientists have received a spreadsheet of customer phone numbers from the parent company. 

Structure Type:

Value Type: 

Source Type: 

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2. A smart watch has been collecting heart rate data from its wearer, and the raw data is in JSON format.

Structure Type:

Value Type: 

Source Type: 

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3. A workplace survey of employee morale that is stored in a CSV file. 

Structure Type:

Value Type: 

Source Type: 

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4. Astrophysicists are accessing a database of galaxies that has been collected by a space probe. The data contains the number of planets within in each galaxy.

Structure Type:

Value Type: 

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5. A personal finance app uses APIs to connect to a user's financial accounts in order to calculate their net worth. They can see all of their transactions in a format of rows and columns and looks similar to a spreadsheet.

Structure Type:

Value Type: 

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## Rubric

Exemplary | Adequate | Needs Improvement
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Correctly identifies all structure, value, and sources |Correctly identifies 3 all structure, value, and sources|Correctly identifies 2 or less all structure, value, and sources|