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Roy Jafari
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Roy Jafari

Roy Jafari, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of business analytics at the University of Redlands. Roy has taught and developed college-level courses that cover data cleaning, decision making, data science, machine learning, and optimization. Roy's style of teaching is hands-on and he believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing. He uses active learning teaching philosophy and readers will get to experience active learning in this book. Roy believes that successful data preprocessing only happens when you are equipped with the most efficient tools, have an appropriate understanding of data analytic goals, are aware of data preprocessing steps, and can compare a variety of methods. This belief has shaped the structure of this book.
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The whys of data transformation and massaging

Data transformation comes at the very last stage of data preprocessing, right before using the analytic tools. At this stage of data preprocessing, the dataset already has the following characteristics.

  • Data cleaning: The dataset is cleaned at all three cleaning levels (Chapters 9–11).
  • Data integration: All the potentially beneficial data sources are recognized and a dataset that includes the necessary information is created (Chapter 12, Data Fusion and Integration).
  • Data reduction: If needed, the size of the dataset has been reduced (Chapter 13, Data Reduction).

At this stage of data preprocessing, we may have to make some changes to the data before moving to the analyzing stage. The dataset will undergo the changes for one of the following reasons: we will call them necessity, correctness, and effectiveness. The following list provides more detail for each reason.

  • Necessity: The analytic method cannot...
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Roy Jafari

Roy Jafari, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of business analytics at the University of Redlands. Roy has taught and developed college-level courses that cover data cleaning, decision making, data science, machine learning, and optimization. Roy's style of teaching is hands-on and he believes the best way to learn is to learn by doing. He uses active learning teaching philosophy and readers will get to experience active learning in this book. Roy believes that successful data preprocessing only happens when you are equipped with the most efficient tools, have an appropriate understanding of data analytic goals, are aware of data preprocessing steps, and can compare a variety of methods. This belief has shaped the structure of this book.
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