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EDA Tutorial for 2017 PyCon Portland

2017-05-PyCon-EDA-Tutorial

EDA tutorial

Redcard Dataset

Resources

• Exploratory Data Analysis by John Tukey
• Coursera: JHU Exploratory Data Analysis
• Exploratory Data Analysis with R by Roger D. Peng
• Targeted Projection Pursuit

Checklist of Principles

• Show Comparisons
  • relative hypotheses
  • compared to what?
• Show causality, mechanism, explanation, systematic structure
  • What's the causal framework for thinking about a question?
• Show multivariate data
• Integrate evidence
  • Make use of many modes of data presentation
• Describe and document the evidence with appropriate labels
• Content is king