Row
What is a row in a dataset?
A horizontal line of cells.
A row runs across the table and holds one interview. Every cell in it belongs to the same person, which is what makes it possible to ask whether people who sleep more also have more siblings.
In Lesson 1.1, we touch on a rule: every row keeps the nickname or the interview number it had in our notebook. This is what lets us go back to the paper and check an answer when a value looks wrong. And we will need to, because everybody mistypes data.
From our own dataset
Row 3 holds the interview for Herobrine. Row 1 holds the name of each column: Nickname, birth year, siblings, cousins, sleep, pet, and the rest.
Where we teach it
Lesson 1.1 of Project 1: Sibling Interviews. Watch lesson 1.1 and read the notes, free with a free account.
Related terms
- Column: A vertical line of cells.
- Cell: One box in the table: where a single row meets a single column.
- Observation: A complete record of the characteristics we observed about one person or thing.
- Dataset: Data organized into a table so it can be analyzed.