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1. Exploratory Data Analysis

1.3.

EDA Techniques

Summary After you have collected a set of data, how do you do an exploratory data analysis? What techniques do you employ? What do the various techniques focus on? What conclusions can you expect to reach?

This section provides answers to these kinds of questions via a gallery of EDA techniques and a detailed description of each technique. The techniques are divided into graphical and quantitative techniques. For exploratory data analysis, the emphasis is primarily on the graphical techniques.

Table of Contents for Section 3
  1. Introduction
  2. Analysis Questions
  3. Graphical Techniques: Alphabetical
  4. Graphical Techniques: By Problem Category
  5. Quantitative Techniques: Alphabetical
  6. Probability Distributions
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