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Exploratory Data Analysis

TL;DR Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is the first step in any data project — getting to know your data before formal analysis. It involves summarising, visualising, and checking data to understand its stru

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Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is the first step in any data project — getting to know your data before formal analysis. It involves summarising, visualising, and checking data to understand its structure, find patterns, detect anomalies, and identify problems. EDA prevents costly mistakes that come from jumping straight to modelling with poorly understood data.

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