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Exploratory Data Analysis with Python Cookbook

Exploratory Data Analysis with Python Cookbook

By : Ayodele Oluleye
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Exploratory Data Analysis with Python Cookbook

Exploratory Data Analysis with Python Cookbook

4.8 (5)
By: Ayodele Oluleye

Overview of this book

In today's data-centric world, the ability to extract meaningful insights from vast amounts of data has become a valuable skill across industries. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) lies at the heart of this process, enabling us to comprehend, visualize, and derive valuable insights from various forms of data. This book is a comprehensive guide to Exploratory Data Analysis using the Python programming language. It provides practical steps needed to effectively explore, analyze, and visualize structured and unstructured data. It offers hands-on guidance and code for concepts such as generating summary statistics, analyzing single and multiple variables, visualizing data, analyzing text data, handling outliers, handling missing values and automating the EDA process. It is suited for data scientists, data analysts, researchers or curious learners looking to gain essential knowledge and practical steps for analyzing vast amounts of data to uncover insights. Python is an open-source general purpose programming language which is used widely for data science and data analysis given its simplicity and versatility. It offers several libraries which can be used to clean, analyze, and visualize data. In this book, we will explore popular Python libraries such as Pandas, Matplotlib, and Seaborn and provide workable code for analyzing data in Python using these libraries. By the end of this book, you will have gained comprehensive knowledge about EDA and mastered the powerful set of EDA techniques and tools required for analyzing both structured and unstructured data to derive valuable insights.
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Implementing factor analysis on multiple variables

Just like PCA, factor analysis can be used for dimensionality reduction. It can be used to condense multiple variables into a smaller set of variables called factors that are easier to analyze and understand. A factor is a latent or hidden variable that describes the relationship of observed variables (i.e., variables captured in our dataset). The key concept is that multiple variables in our dataset have similar responses because they are associated with a specific theme or hidden variable that is not directly measured. For example, responses to variables such as the taste of food, food temperature, and freshness of food are likely to be similar because they have a common theme (factor), which is food quality. Factor analysis is quite popular in the analysis of survey data.

In this recipe, we will explore how to apply factor analysis to a dataset using the factor_analyzer library.

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