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The Data Analysis Workshop

You're reading from   The Data Analysis Workshop Solve business problems with state-of-the-art data analysis models, developing expert data analysis skills along the way

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839211386
Length 626 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Konstantin Palagachev Konstantin Palagachev
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Gururajan Govindan Gururajan Govindan
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Gururajan Govindan
Shubhangi Hora Shubhangi Hora
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Bike Sharing Analysis 2. Absenteeism at Work FREE CHAPTER 3. Analyzing Bank Marketing Campaign Data 4. Tackling Company Bankruptcy 5. Analyzing the Online Shopper's Purchasing Intention 6. Analysis of Credit Card Defaulters 7. Analyzing the Heart Disease Dataset 8. Analyzing Online Retail II Dataset 9. Analysis of the Energy Consumed by Appliances 10. Analyzing Air Quality Appendix

Exploratory Data Analysis

The majority of time in a data science project is spent on Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA). In EDA, we investigate data to find hidden patterns and outliers with the help of visualization. By performing EDA, we can uncover the underlying structure of data and test our hypotheses with the help of summary statistics. We can split EDA into three parts:

  • Univariate analysis
  • Bivariate analysis
  • Correlation

Let's look at each of the parts one by one in the following sections.

Univariate Analysis

Univariate analysis is the simplest form of analysis where we analyze each feature (that is, each column of a DataFrame) and try to uncover the pattern or distribution of the data.

In univariate analysis, we will be analyzing the categorical columns (DEFAULT, SEX, EDUCATION, and MARRIAGE) to mine useful information about the data:

Let's begin with each of the variables one by one:

  1. The DEFAULT column:

    Let's look at the...

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