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Percentages or proportions?

February 2, 2023 By editor

Don’t store percentages. Normalize them as proportions and format them as percentages for display. If you are representing 20%, record it as 0.2, regardless of how you present this to the user (for input or output).

Having one approach keeps it simple.

Filed Under: Data science Tagged With: percentages, proportions

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