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+ In artificial-intelligence, you can end up dealing with all sorts of data. + For example — +

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Some Differences

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+ Some of these data are very different than each other. +

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+ For example — if the price of one house is $1,000,000 and the price of another house is $500,000, then I can say the price of the first house is 2× (two times) bigger than the first. + (Since $1,000,000 = 2 × $500,000.) +

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+ But it is nonsense to say — 2 × type O+ blood. + There is no concept of multiplying blood types. +

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+ The same is true for city names. + It is nonsense to say — 5 × the city of Vancouver. +

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Types of Data

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+ The levels of measurement are a way of understanding these different types of data. +

The levels of measurement are a way of categorizing a data as one of four different categories: