Data Cleaning and Preprocessing
Data cleaning processes are essential for ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and usability. Techniques such as handling missing data, removing duplicates, and detecting outliers play crucial roles in data preprocessing. Moreover, converting data types and normalizing features enhances the performance of analytical models.
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What we have learnt
- Cleaning data ensures accuracy, consistency, and usability.
- Handle missing data through removal or imputation.
- Remove duplicates and detect outliers to improve quality.
- Convert data types for uniformity.
- Normalize or standardize numerical features for better model performance.
Key Concepts
- -- Data Cleaning
- The process of detecting and correcting corrupt or inaccurate records from a dataset.
- -- Missing Data
- Data points that are absent from a dataset, which can lead to inaccurate analytical results.
- -- Normalization
- A process of adjusting values in the dataset to a common scale, typically between 0 and 1.
- -- Standardization
- Transforming data to have a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1.
- -- Outliers
- Data points that differ significantly from other observations, potentially skewing the analysis.
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