Correlation vs Causation in Data Science
A short and sweet explanation using real-world examples.
3 min readAug 2, 2020
Let’s jump into it right away.
Correlation
Correlation means relationship and association to another variable. For example, a movement in one variable associates with the movement in another variable. For example, ice-cream sales go up as the weather turns hot.
A positive correlation means, the movement is in the same direction (left plot); negative correlation means that variables…