Summary

In this chapter, we focused on how to transform raw data into an appropriately structured format, before we could run statistical tests. This process is a really important part of our everyday actions, and it takes most of a data scientist's time. But after reading this chapter, you should be confident in how to restructure your data in most cases— so, this is the right time to focus on building some models, which we will do in the next chapter.

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