Chapter 3. The Five Steps of Data Science
We have spent extensive time looking at the preliminaries of data science, including outlining the types of data and how to approach datasets depending on their type. This chapter will focus mostly on the third step of exploration. We will use the Python packages pandas and matplotlib to explore different datasets.
Introduction to data science
Many people ask me the biggest difference between data science and data analytics. While one can argue that there is no difference between the two, many will argue that there are hundreds! I believe that regardless of how many differences there are between the two terms, the biggest is that data science follows a structured, step-by-step process that, when followed, ...
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