Chapter 1. Exploratory Data Analysis
Before I dive into more complex methods to analyze your data later in the book, I would like to stop at basic data exploratory tasks on which almost all data scientists spend at least 80-90% of their productive time. The data preparation, cleansing, transforming, and joining the data alone is estimated to be a $44 billion/year industry alone (Data Preparation in the Big Data Era by Federico Castanedo and Best Practices for Data Integration, O'Reilly Media, 2015). Given this fact, it is surprising that people only recently started spending more time on the science of developing best practices and establishing good habits, documentation, and teaching materials for the whole process of data preparation (Beautiful ...
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