Exploratory Data Analysis

The video below discusses the common steps when investigating data. This is usually referred to as an exploratory data analysis (EDA).

I highly recommend watching the video using the ‘full’ Panopto player. There is a ‘pop out’ button in the bottom right of the video to enter this viewer.

Notes

• HTML version
• PDF version

Additional Readings for Week 3

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is often the first step of dealing with data. However, EDA is somewhat of an art and something that you get better at with experience. Often people new to EDA don’t know what they should be looking for! Here are some articles that discuss different strategies for EDA.

• Shopify page
• IBM page
• Wikipedia page
• NIST page

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