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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

Background

Data transformation is a set of techniques used to convert data from one format or structure to another format or structure. The following are some examples of transformation activities:

  • Data deduplication involves the identification of duplicates and their removal.
  • Key restructuring involves transforming any keys with built-in meanings to the generic keys.
  • Data cleansing involves extracting words and deleting out-of-date, inaccurate, and incomplete information from the source language without extracting the meaning or information to enhance the accuracy of the source data.
  • Data validation is a process of formulating rules or algorithms that help in validating different types of data against some known issues.
  • Format revisioning involves converting from one format to another.
  • Data derivation consists of creating a set of rules to generate more information from the...