Feature Engineering Made Easy

Identifying missing values in data

Our first method of identifying missing values is to give us a better understanding of how to work with real-world data. Often, data can have missing values due to a variety of reasons, for example with survey data, some observations may not have been recorded. It is important for us to analyze our data, and get a sense of what the missing values are so we can decide how we want to handle missing values for our machine learning. To start, let's dive into a dataset that we will be interested in for the duration of this chapter, the Pima Indian Diabetes Prediction dataset.