Chapter 1
Data Collection and Cleaning
The first step in any data analysis project is to collect and clean your data. If you're fortunate enough to have been given a perfectly clean dataset, then congratulations – you're well on your way. For the rest of us, though, there's quite a bit of grunt work to be done before you can get to the joy of analysis (yeah, I know, I really must get a life…).
In this chapter, you'll learn about what the features of a good dataset look like and how the dataset should be formatted to make it amenable to analysis by association and correlation tests.
Most importantly, you'll learn why it's not necessarily a good idea to collect sales data on ice cream and haemorrhoid cream in the same dataset.
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