9. Analysis of the Energy Consumed by Appliances

Overview

This chapter aims to display the application of general data analysis techniques to a specific use case—analyzing the energy consumed by household appliances. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to analyze individual features of the dataset to assess whether the data is skewed. You will also be equipped to perform feature engineering by creating new features from existing ones, and also to conduct Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and design informative visualizations.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we took a look at the retail industry through the dataset of an online retail store based out of the UK. We applied a variety of techniques, such as breaking down the ...

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