© Dr. Umesh R. Hodeghatta and Umesha Nayak 2017
Umesh R. Hodeghatta and Umesh Nayak, Business Analytics Using R - A Practical Approach, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2514-1_5
Umesh R. Hodeghatta1 and Umesh Nayak1
(1)Bangalore, Karnataka, India
This chapter covers data exploration, validation, and cleaning required for data analysis. You’ll learn the purpose of data cleaning, why you need data preparation, how to go about handling missing values, and some of the data-cleaning techniques used in the industry.
The purpose of business analytics is to derive information from data in order to make appropriate business decisions. Data can be real-time or historical. Typically, you build ...
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