Topic: Handling Datasets of All Types – Part 2 of 5: Data Cleaning and Preprocessing

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1. Importance of Data Cleaning

• Real-world data is often noisy, incomplete, or inconsistent.

• Cleaning improves data quality and model performance.

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2. Handling Missing Data

• Detect missing values using isnull() or isna() in pandas.

• Strategies to handle missing data:

* Remove rows or columns with missing values:

df.dropna(inplace=True)

* Impute missing values with mean, median, or mode:

df['column'].fillna(df['column'].mean(), inplace=True)

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3. Handling Outliers

• Outliers can skew analysis and model results.

• Detect outliers using:

* Boxplots
* Z-score method
* IQR (Interquartile Range)

• Handle by removal or transformation.

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4. Data Normalization and Scaling

• Many ML models require features to be on a similar scale.

• Common techniques:

* Min-Max Scaling (scales values between 0 and 1)

* Standardization (mean = 0, std = 1)

from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler

scaler = StandardScaler()
df_scaled = scaler.fit_transform(df[['feature1', 'feature2']])

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5. Encoding Categorical Variables

• Convert categorical data into numerical:

* Label Encoding: Assigns an integer to each category.

* One-Hot Encoding: Creates binary columns for each category.

pd.get_dummies(df['category_column'])

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6. Summary

• Data cleaning is essential for reliable modeling.

• Handling missing values, outliers, scaling, and encoding are key preprocessing steps.

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Exercise

• Load a dataset, identify missing values, and apply mean imputation.

• Detect outliers using IQR and remove them.

• Normalize numeric features using standardization.

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Topic: Handling Datasets of All Types – Part 2 of 5: Data Cleaning and Preprocessing

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1. Importance of Data Cleaning

• Real-world data is often noisy, incomplete, or inconsistent.

• Cleaning improves data quality and model performance.

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2. Handling Missing Data

• Detect missing values using isnull() or isna() in pandas.

• Strategies to handle missing data:

* Remove rows or columns with missing values:

df.dropna(inplace=True)

* Impute missing values with mean, median, or mode:

df['column'].fillna(df['column'].mean(), inplace=True)

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3. Handling Outliers

• Outliers can skew analysis and model results.

• Detect outliers using:

* Boxplots
* Z-score method
* IQR (Interquartile Range)

• Handle by removal or transformation.

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4. Data Normalization and Scaling

• Many ML models require features to be on a similar scale.

• Common techniques:

* Min-Max Scaling (scales values between 0 and 1)

* Standardization (mean = 0, std = 1)

from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler

scaler = StandardScaler()
df_scaled = scaler.fit_transform(df[['feature1', 'feature2']])

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5. Encoding Categorical Variables

• Convert categorical data into numerical:

* Label Encoding: Assigns an integer to each category.

* One-Hot Encoding: Creates binary columns for each category.

pd.get_dummies(df['category_column'])

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6. Summary

• Data cleaning is essential for reliable modeling.

• Handling missing values, outliers, scaling, and encoding are key preprocessing steps.

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Exercise

• Load a dataset, identify missing values, and apply mean imputation.

• Detect outliers using IQR and remove them.

• Normalize numeric features using standardization.

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Topic: Handling Datasets of All Types – Part 4 of 5: Text Data Processing and Natural Language Processing (NLP)

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1. Understanding Text Data

• Text data is unstructured and requires preprocessing to convert into numeric form for ML models.

• Common tasks: classification, sentiment analysis, language modeling.

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2. Text Preprocessing Steps

• Tokenization: Splitting text into words or subwords.

• Lowercasing: Convert all text to lowercase for uniformity.

• Removing Punctuation and Stopwords: Clean unnecessary words.

• Stemming and Lemmatization: Reduce words to their root form.

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3. Encoding Text Data

• Bag-of-Words (BoW): Represents text as word count vectors.

• TF-IDF (Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency): Weighs words based on importance.

• Word Embeddings: Dense vector representations capturing semantic meaning (e.g., Word2Vec, GloVe).

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4. Loading and Processing Text Data in Python

from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer

texts = ["I love data science.", "Data science is fun."]
vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer(stop_words='english')
X = vectorizer.fit_transform(texts)

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5. Handling Large Text Datasets

• Use libraries like NLTK, spaCy, and Transformers.

• For deep learning, tokenize using models like BERT or GPT.

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6. Summary

• Text data needs extensive preprocessing and encoding.

• Choosing the right representation is crucial for model success.

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Exercise

• Clean a set of sentences by tokenizing and removing stopwords.

• Convert cleaned text into TF-IDF vectors.

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Topic: Handling Datasets of All Types – Part 5 of 5: Working with Time Series and Tabular Data

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1. Understanding Time Series Data

• Time series data is a sequence of data points collected over time intervals.

• Examples: stock prices, weather data, sensor readings.

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2. Loading and Exploring Time Series Data

import pandas as pd

df = pd.read_csv('time_series.csv', parse_dates=['date'], index_col='date')
print(df.head())

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3. Key Time Series Concepts

• Trend: Long-term increase or decrease in data.

• Seasonality: Repeating patterns at regular intervals.

• Noise: Random variations.

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4. Preprocessing Time Series

• Handle missing data using forward/backward fill.

df.fillna(method='ffill', inplace=True)

• Resample data to different frequencies (daily, monthly).

df_resampled = df.resample('M').mean()

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5. Working with Tabular Data

• Tabular data consists of rows (samples) and columns (features).

• Often requires handling missing values, encoding categorical variables, and scaling features (covered in previous parts).

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6. Summary

• Time series data requires special preprocessing due to temporal order.

• Tabular data is the most common format, needing cleaning and feature engineering.

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Exercise

• Load a time series dataset, fill missing values, and resample it monthly.

• For tabular data, encode categorical variables and scale numerical features.

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Topic: 25 Important Questions on Handling Datasets of All Types in Python

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1. What are the common types of datasets?
Structured, unstructured, and semi-structured.

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2. How do you load a CSV file in Python?
Using pandas.read_csv() function.

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3. How to check for missing values in a dataset?
Using df.isnull().sum() in pandas.

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4. What methods can you use to handle missing data?
Remove rows/columns, mean/median/mode imputation, interpolation.

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5. How to detect outliers in data?
Using boxplots, z-score, or interquartile range (IQR) methods.

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6. What is data normalization?
Scaling data to a specific range, often \[0,1].

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7. What is data standardization?
Rescaling data to have zero mean and unit variance.

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8. How to encode categorical variables?
Label encoding or one-hot encoding.

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9. What libraries help with image data processing in Python?
OpenCV, Pillow, scikit-image.

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10. How do you load and preprocess images for ML models?
Resize, normalize pixel values, data augmentation.

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11. How can audio data be loaded in Python?
Using libraries like librosa or scipy.io.wavfile.

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12. What are MFCCs in audio processing?
Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients – features extracted from audio signals.

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13. How do you preprocess text data?
Tokenization, removing stopwords, stemming, lemmatization.

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14. What is TF-IDF?
A technique to weigh words based on frequency and importance.

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15. How do you handle variable-length sequences in text or time series?
Padding sequences or using packed sequences.

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16. How to handle time series missing data?
Forward fill, backward fill, interpolation.

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17. What is data augmentation?
Creating new data samples by transforming existing data.

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18. How to split datasets into training and testing sets?
Using train_test_split from scikit-learn.

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19. What is batch processing in ML?
Processing data in small batches during training for efficiency.

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20. How to save and load datasets efficiently?
Using formats like HDF5, pickle, or TFRecord.

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21. What is feature scaling and why is it important?
Adjusting features to a common scale to improve model training.

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22. How to detect and remove duplicate data?
Using df.duplicated() and df.drop_duplicates().

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23. What is one-hot encoding and when to use it?
Converting categorical variables to binary vectors, used for nominal categories.

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24. How to handle imbalanced datasets?
Techniques like oversampling, undersampling, or synthetic data generation (SMOTE).

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25. How to visualize datasets in Python?
Using matplotlib, seaborn, or plotly for charts and graphs.

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