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Python Data Analysis - Third Edition
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Python Data Analysis - Third Edition

by Avinash Navlani, Ivan Idris
February 2021
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
478 pages
8h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Statistics

Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is the first step toward data analysis and building a machine learning model. Statistics provide fundamental knowledge and a set of tools for exploratory or descriptive data analysis. This chapter is designed to make you data-ready. For any kind of data professional role, you need to understand real-world data that is generally noisy, has missing values, and is collected from various sources.

Before performing any kind of preprocessing and analysis, you need to get familiar with the data present, and statistics is the only tool that will help you here. This makes statistics a primary and very necessary skill for data professionals, helping them gain initial insights and an understanding of the data. ...

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