Lecture 7 – Data Cleaning and EDA

Presented by Anthony D. Joseph

Content by Anthony D. Joseph, Joseph Gonzalez, Deborah Nolan, Joseph Hellerstein

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7.1
Exploratory data analysis and its position in the data science lifecycle. The relationship between data cleaning and EDA.
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7.2
Exploring various different data storage formats and their tradeoffs.
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7.3
Primary keys and foreign keys. Eliminating redundancy in tables.
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7.4
Defining and discussing the terms quantitative discrete, quantitative continuous, qualitative ordinal, qualitative nominal.
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Discussing the granularity and scope of our data to ensure that it's appropriate for analysis. Discussing various methods of encoding time, and flaws to be aware of.
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Ways in which our data can be incorrect or corrupt. Different methods for addressing missing values, and their tradeoffs.
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7.7
Summarizing the process of EDA.
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(Optional) 7.8
A demo of EDA on real data.
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