Understand Your Machine Learning Data With Descriptive Statistics in Python

Last Updated on December 11, 2019

You must understand your data in order to get the best results.

In this post you will discover 7 recipes that you can use in Python to learn more about your machine learning data.

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• Update Mar/2018: Added alternate link to download the dataset as the original appears to have been taken down.

Understand Your Machine Learning Data With Descriptive Statistics in Python
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Python Recipes To Understand Your Machine Learning Data

This section lists 7 recipes that you can use to better understand your machine learning data.

Each recipe is demonstrated by loading the Pima Indians Diabetes classification dataset.

Open your python interactive environment and try each recipe out in turn.