#Database
Funnily enough, this is just a fancy way of referring to a row in a database
An observation refers to the attributes that describe a piece of data contained in a row of a table
If you’re familiar with spreadsheets and databases, then you know data is organised in tables and that tables are set out in rows and columns
While spreadsheet tools like Excel lean into the conventional terms: rows and columns, database tools use special terms like “observation”
So when you open up a table, pick a particular item/primary key and look through horizontally (i.e. side to side) at all the attributes of that key, you are looking at an observation
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