Perform Exploratory Data Analysis to Identify Trends, Patterns and Outliers

Learning Objectives

At the end of this topic, you will be able to:

1. Collect, import, and validate data from multiple source types against data quality standards.
2. Clean and preprocess data to handle missing values, duplicates, and inconsistencies.
3. Compute and interpret descriptive statistics to summarise a dataset.
4. Apply exploratory techniques to identify trends, patterns, and outliers.
5. Detect and interpret outliers using both statistical and graphical methods.
6. Document exploratory findings clearly to support later analysis.