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The Data Analysis Workshop

By : Gururajan Govindan, Shubhangi Hora, Konstantin Palagachev
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The Data Analysis Workshop

By: Gururajan Govindan, Shubhangi Hora, Konstantin Palagachev

Overview of this book

Businesses today operate online and generate data almost continuously. While not all data in its raw form may seem useful, if processed and analyzed correctly, it can provide you with valuable hidden insights. The Data Analysis Workshop will help you learn how to discover these hidden patterns in your data, to analyze them, and leverage the results to help transform your business. The book begins by taking you through the use case of a bike rental shop. You'll be shown how to correlate data, plot histograms, and analyze temporal features. As you progress, you’ll learn how to plot data for a hydraulic system using the Seaborn and Matplotlib libraries, and explore a variety of use cases that show you how to join and merge databases, prepare data for analysis, and handle imbalanced data. By the end of the book, you'll have learned different data analysis techniques, including hypothesis testing, correlation, and null-value imputation, and will have become a confident data analyst.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Preface
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7. Analyzing the Heart Disease Dataset
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9. Analysis of the Energy Consumed by Appliances

Summary

In this chapter, we played around with data pertaining to the quality of air in multiple localities of Beijing, China. We observed trends over different measures of time to see how the concentration of various pollutants differed.

In this book, we looked at several data cleaning, preparation, analysis, and visualization techniques and applied them to a diverse range of datasets from a variety of domains. We made informed decisions to delete or impute instances based on the data available, and tweaked existing features to create new ones by converting them into different formats and breaking them down into several features.

These processes helped us to derive additional insights from our data. Additionally, we learned to ensure that we ask our data the right questions and understand what information it can and cannot provide us with. It is important not to have unreasonable expectations from your data.

You are now equipped with the tools and knowledge required to...