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Data cleaning, the unsexy but essential aspect of data science
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07.06.18
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Data science involves creating models that can predict the future, such as what the yields will be for the next planting season. This work, arguably, is ‘sexy.’
There’s an aspect of data science, though, that is ‘unsexy’ but a requisite to actually developing those predictive models. It’s called data cleaning or data curation.
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