Exploratory Data Analysis

Exploratory data analysis (EDA), pioneered by J. W. Tukey in the 1960s, emphasises that data analysis itself is a science, distinct from the confirmation or rejection of hypotheses by a statistical test. EDA stresses the importance of understanding the data-generating process that produces the data to be analysed, how that might structure the data in various ways, or give rise to errors within it. Such exploration of the data is fundamental to the generation of hypotheses about it or models to summarise it, as opposed to the later confirmation or rejection of these hypotheses or models....







