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Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with Python

By : Suresh Kumar Mukhiya, Usman Ahmed
Book Image

Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with Python

By: Suresh Kumar Mukhiya, Usman Ahmed

Overview of this book

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is an approach to data analysis that involves the application of diverse techniques to gain insights into a dataset. This book will help you gain practical knowledge of the main pillars of EDA - data cleaning, data preparation, data exploration, and data visualization. You’ll start by performing EDA using open source datasets and perform simple to advanced analyses to turn data into meaningful insights. You’ll then learn various descriptive statistical techniques to describe the basic characteristics of data and progress to performing EDA on time-series data. As you advance, you’ll learn how to implement EDA techniques for model development and evaluation and build predictive models to visualize results. Using Python for data analysis, you’ll work with real-world datasets, understand data, summarize its characteristics, and visualize it for business intelligence. By the end of this EDA book, you’ll have developed the skills required to carry out a preliminary investigation on any dataset, yield insights into data, present your results with visual aids, and build a model that correctly predicts future outcomes.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: The Fundamentals of EDA
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Section 2: Descriptive Statistics
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Section 3: Model Development and Evaluation

Section 3: Model Development and Evaluation

One of the main aims of EDA is to prepare your dataset to develop a useful model capable of characterizing sensed data. To create such models, we first need to understand the dataset. If our data set is labeled, we will be performing supervised learning tasks, and if our data is unlabeled, then we will be performing unsupervised learning tasks. Moreover, once we create these models, we need to quantify how effective our model is. We can do this by performing several evaluations on these models. In this section, We are going to discuss in-depth how to use EDA for model development and evaluation. The main objective of this section is to allow you to use EDA techniques on real datasets, prepare different types of models, and evaluate them.

This section contains the following chapters: