9 Data Exploration

20210309 This chapter is about exploring data. This includes simply extracting different bits of the data, and also statistical summaries of the data, such as the averages, skewness, etc. Exploration is contrasted with Wrangling where in Wrangling you are transforming the data and cleaning the data in various ways.

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