A Five-Step Guide for Conducting Exploratory Data Analysis

Have you ever been handed a dataset and then been asked to describe it? When I was first starting out in data science, this question confused me. My first thought was “What do you mean?” followed by “Can you be more specific?” The reality is that exploratory data analysis (EDA) is a critical tool in every data scientist’s kit, and the results are invaluable for answering important business questions. Simply put, an EDA refers to performing visualizations and identifying significant patterns,...