Correlation Does Not Imply Causation
Correlation and causation can exist at the same time
TL;DR: Correlation does not necessarily mean causation! See yourself through this Infographic.
“Correlation does not prove causation”: This was the statement I came across during my Udacity-Bertelsmann Technology Scholarship on Data Track Course- 2019. I was awestruck by this line. I was doing EDA, and based on correlation; I summed up my result(causation accepted). [Yes, I was wrong!]
That very line from Bertelsmann Data Track course made me realize that I was steering towards wrong analysis; thus, I started to dig deeper and try to understand the thin line difference between Correlation & Causation.
Understanding the phrase “Correlation does not prove causation” and underpinning the concept on your next data science project will make you double confident.
What’s Inside:
- Understanding the correlation.
