Distance correlation is a way of measuring how related two sets of numbers are. It looks at how far apart the numbers in each set are from each other, and then figures out if there is a pattern in the way they are related. For example, if two sets of numbers have a lot of numbers that are close together, then they are considered to be "related" or "correlated". However, if the numbers in each set are far away from each other, then they are not considered to be related or correlated.