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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

Transportation Costs and Distance to Work Factors

Two possible indicators for absenteeism may also be the distance between home and work (the Distance from Residence to Work column) and transportation costs (the Transportation expense column). Employees who have to travel longer, or whose costs for commuting to work are high, might be more prone to absenteeism.

In this section, we will investigate the relationship between these variables and the absence time in hours. Since we do not believe the aforementioned factors might be indicative of disease problems, we will not consider a possible relationship with the Reason for absence column.

First, let's start our analysis by plotting the previously mentioned columns (Distance from Residence to Work and Transportation expense) against the Absenteeism time in hours column:

# plot transportation costs and distance to work against hours
plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6))
sns.jointplot(x="Distance from Residence to Work",...