TSK - Chapter 3 - Exploring Data

Data exploration is a preliminary exploration of the data to better understand its characteristics.

• 3 Exploring Data
• 3.1 The Iris Data Set
• 3.2 Summary Statistics
• 3.2.1 Frequencies and the Mode
• 3.2.2 Percentiles
• 3.2.3 Measures of Location : Mean and Median
• 3.2.4 Measure of Spread : Range and Variance
• 3.2.5 Multivariate Summary Statistics
• 3.2.6 Other ways to Summarize the Data
• 3.3 Visualization
• 3.3.1 Motivations for Visualization
• 3.3.2 General Concepts
• 3.3.3 Techniques
• 3.3.4 Visualizing Higher dimensional data
• 3.3.5 Do's and Don'ts
• 3.4 OLAP and Multidimensional Analysis
• Representing Iris data as a multidimensional array
• Multidimensional data : The General Case
• Analyzing multidimensional data
• Final comments on multidimensional data