10.1 Learning objectives

• Recognize the two types of questions that will always be useful for making discoveries within your data: “What type of variation occurs within my variables?” and “What type of covariation occurs between my variables?”
• Explore the variation within the variables of your observations.
• Deal with outliers and missing values in your data.
• Explore the covariation between the variables of your observations.
• Recognize how models can be used to explore patterns in your data.