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Machine Learning Solutions
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Machine Learning Solutions

by Jalaj Thanaki
April 2018
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
566 pages
12h 17m
English
Packt Publishing
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Understanding the datasets

Finding out an appropriate dataset is a challenging task in data science. Sometimes, you find a dataset but it is not in the appropriate format. Our problem statement will decide what type of dataset and data format we need. These kinds of activities are a part of data wrangling.

Note

Data wrangling is defined as the process of transforming and mapping data from one data form into another. With transformation and mapping, our intention should be to create an appropriate and valuable dataset that can be useful in order to develop analytics products. Data wrangling is also referred to as data munging and is a crucial part of any data science application.

Generally, e-commerce datasets are proprietary datasets, and it's rare ...

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