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Glossary: Data Visualization

Correlation

Also written: corr, corr()

A number from -1 to 1 for how closely two measures move together in a straight line. Seats and bags per month for Kettle & Crane's cafés have 0.78, a strong link, but this doesn't prove one causes the other.

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