Understanding the Dataset
It is extremely important for any analyst to understand the data provided to him, this makes it easier to think of scenarios and better capture the insights hidden in the data. In order to do that
Descriptive statistics of the dataset gives you an instant summary of the dataset. Try it out
df.describe()
It gives you the values like
- total count
- maximum value
- minimum value
- mean
- standard deviation
- 25th percentile
- 75% percentile
This function by default ignores all the categorical columns
But you can force the function to pull the categorical column as well by passing a parameter in the function
df.describe(include='all')
Hope this helps.
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