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The Applied Data Science Workshop

You're reading from   The Applied Data Science Workshop Get started with the applications of data science and techniques to explore and assess data effectively

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800202504
Length 352 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Our First Analysis – the Boston Housing Dataset

The dataset we'll be looking at in this section is the so-called Boston Housing dataset. It contains US census data concerning houses in various areas around the city of Boston. Each sample corresponds to a unique area and has about a dozen measures. We should think of samples as rows and measures as columns. This data was first published in 1978 and is quite small, containing only about 500 samples.

Now that we know something about the context of the dataset, let's decide on a rough plan for the exploration and analysis stages. If applicable, this plan will accommodate the relevant questions under study. In this case, the goal is not to answer a question, but to show Jupyter in action and illustrate some basic data analysis methods.

Our general approach to this analysis will be to do the following:

  • Load the data into Jupyter using a pandas DataFrame
  • Quantitatively understand the features
  • Look for...
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The Applied Data Science Workshop - Second Edition
Published in: Jul 2020
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781800202504
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