Chapter 17
Next Steps
The journey from raw data to useful information has only begun. There are often many more steps to getting insights that can be used to support enterprise decision-making. From here, the reader needs to take the initiative to extend these projects, or consider other projects. Some readers will want to demonstrate their grasp of Python while others will go more deeply into the area of exploratory data analysis.
Python is used for so many different things that it seems difficult to even suggest a direction for deeper understanding of the language, the libraries, and the various ways Python is used.
In this chapter, we’ll touch on a few more topics related to exploratory data analysis. The projects in this book are only a tiny fraction of the kinds of problems that need to be solved on a daily basis.
Every analyst needs to balance the time between understanding the enterprise data being processed, searching for better ways to model the data, and effective...