Talk:Wide and narrow data

I think this is a poor example, because the merged columns have different data types - Years and Kilos. While this is technically a type of long format, a more common use might be of repeated measurements of the same data type, such as measurements over time, or expenses of different classes. The long format then retains the same type, and has technical advantages in terms of data processing and plotting.

- I agree. I will come back when I have time and add or rework an example that uses repeated measures within people, and that also illustrates the ability to include different numbers of observations within person (or other nesting unit). Prof. Eric A. Youngstrom (talk) 14:13, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

- It would be good to expand the example with a couple more variables. This would then draw attention to the fact that the Wide format grows in width as you add more variables, but the Narrow format grows longer, not wider. The way it stands right now both examples are 3 columns wide. --Basho (talk) 18:19, 19 December 2018 (UTC)


 * I'm new to editing but I made an account to say this. The sentences preceding the two example tables differ in that the first ends in a period but the second omits that period. Can this formatting be made consistent? I wasn't sure if this was worth submitting an edit so I thought I'd ask first. JShoes1415 (talk) 21:17, 22 December 2023 (UTC)