Chapter 3. Finding a Needle in a Haystack
Analyzing a dataset to find patterns is an art as much as it is a science. There can be a lot of metrics associated with a dataset and you would like to find the needle in this haystack. For us, a needle is the insight that we look for within data that we weren't aware of earlier. Here, insight could refer to important information about people who buy milk of a particular brand and also buy cereals of another brand, for instance. The retail store can then stack the products near each other.
Whenever you try to analyze a dataset, you should have a detailed understanding of it and also of the domain that it is associated with. If it's a simple dataset that can be understood very easily, then the analysis ...
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