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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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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

Data Preprocessing

Before proceeding onto univariate analysis, let's look at the unique values in the columns. The motive behind looking at the unique values in a column is to identify the subcategory in each column. By knowing the subcategory in each column, we would be in a position to understand which subcategory has a higher count or vice versa. For example, let's take the EDUCATION column. We are interested in finding what the different subcategories in the EDUCATION column are and which subcategory has the higher count; that is, do our customers have their highest education as College or University?

This step acts as a precursor before we build a profile of our customers.

Let's now find unique values in the SEX column.

We'll print the unique values in the SEX column and sort them in ascending order:

print('SEX ' + str(sorted(df['SEX'].unique())))

The output will be as follows:

SEX [1, 2]

The following code prints...

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