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Python Data Science Essentials
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Python Data Science Essentials

by Alberto Boschetti
April 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
258 pages
5h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Selected graphical examples with pandas

Though many machine learning algorithms, with appropriately set hyper-parameters, can optimally learn how to map your data with respect to your target outcome, their performance can be further improved by knowing about hidden and subtle problems in data. It is not simply a matter of detecting any missing or outlying case. Sometimes, it is paramount to clarify whether there are any groups or unusual distributions in the data(for instance, multimodal distributions). Clear data plots that explicate the relationship between variables can also lead to the creation of newer and better features that can predict more than the existing ones.

The practice that was just described is called Explorative Data Analysis, ...

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