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Exploratory Data Analysis with Python Cookbook

You're reading from   Exploratory Data Analysis with Python Cookbook Over 50 recipes to analyze, visualize, and extract insights from structured and unstructured data

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803231105
Length 382 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ayodele Oluleye Ayodele Oluleye
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Generating Summary Statistics 2. Chapter 2: Preparing Data for EDA FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Visualizing Data in Python 4. Chapter 4: Performing Univariate Analysis in Python 5. Chapter 5: Performing Bivariate Analysis in Python 6. Chapter 6: Performing Multivariate Analysis in Python 7. Chapter 7: Analyzing Time Series Data in Python 8. Chapter 8: Analysing Text Data in Python 9. Chapter 9: Dealing with Outliers and Missing Values 10. Chapter 10: Performing Automated Exploratory Data Analysis in Python 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Generating Summary Statistics

In the world of data analysis, working with tabular data is a common practice. When analyzing tabular data, we sometimes need to get some quick insights into the patterns and distribution of the data. These quick insights typically provide the foundation for additional exploration and analyses. We refer to these quick insights as summary statistics. Summary statistics are very useful in exploratory data analysis projects because they help us perform some quick inspection of the data we are analyzing.

In this chapter we’re going to cover some common summary statistics used on exploratory data analysis projects. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Analyzing the mean of a dataset
  • Checking the median of a dataset
  • Identifying the mode of a dataset
  • Checking the variance of a dataset
  • Identifying the standard deviation of a dataset
  • Generating the range of a dataset
  • Identifying the percentiles of a dataset...
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