Learn Data Mining Through Excel: A Step-by-Step Approach for Understanding Machine Learning Methods

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H. ZhouLearn Data Mining Through Excelhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9771-1_11

11. EDA, Data Cleaning, and Feature Selection

Hong Zhou¹  

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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT, USA

 

Exploratory data analysis (EDA) and data cleaning are usually the first two topics in a traditional data mining course. So, it is legitimate to ask why I place them in Chapter 11.

When I started to self-learn data mining, the first book I read did place these two topics in the first three chapters. At that point of time, I had no idea how data mining methods work and was eager to learn the magic. I was not happy that ...