Affiliation:
1. Smt. Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Institute of Computer Applications, CHARUSAT, India
Abstract
Exploratory data analysis is a technique to analyze data sets in order to summarize the main characteristics of them using quantitative and visual aspects. The chapter starts with the introduction of exploratory data analysis. It discusses the conventional view of it and describes the main limitations of it. It explores the features of quantitative and visual exploratory data analysis in detail. It deals with the statistical techniques relevant to EDA. It also emphasizes the main visual techniques to represent the data in an efficient way. R has extraordinary capabilities to deal with quantitative and visual aspects to summarize the main characteristics of the data set. The chapter provides the practical exposure of various plotting systems using R. Finally, the chapter deals with current research and future trends of the EDA.