1 Exploratory Data Analysis
This is a data science book, so let’s start by diving into some data. This is something you should get used to: the first step of every data science problem is exploring your data. Looking closely at its minutest details will help you understand it better and give you clearer ideas for next steps and more sophisticated analyses. It will also help you catch any errors or problems with your data as early as possible. These first steps in the data science process are referred to as exploratory data analysis.
We’ll start this first chapter by introducing a business scenario and describing how data might be used to ...
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