What this book covers

Chapter 1, Data Understanding, provides recipes related to the second phase of CRISP-DM with a focus on exploring the data and data quality. These are recipes that you can apply to data as soon as you acquire the data. Naturally, some of these recipes are also among the more basic, but as always, we seek out the nonobvious tips and tricks that will make this initial assessment of your data efficient.

Chapter 2, Data Preparation – Select, covers just the first task of the data preparation phase. Data preparation is notoriously time-consuming and is incredibly rich in its potential for time-saving recipes. The cookbook will have a total of four chapters on data preparation. The selection of which data rows and which data columns ...

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