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Published inMay 2019
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Radhika Datar
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Radhika Datar

Radhika Datar has more than 5 years' experience in software development and content writing. She is well versed in frameworks such as Python, PHP, and Java, and regularly provides training on them. She has been working with Educba and Eduonix as a training consultant since June 2016, while also working as a freelance academic writer in data science and data analytics. She obtained her master's degree from the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research and her bachelor's degree from K. J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce.
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Harish Garg
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Harish Garg

Harish Garg is a Principal Software Developer, author, and co-founder of a software development and training company, Bignumworks. Harish has more than 19 years of experience in a wide variety of technologies, including blockchain, data science and enterprise software. During this time, he has worked for companies such as McAfee, Intel, etc.
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Introducing and reading a dataset

The Glass Identification dataset from UCI contains 10 attributes, including the ID, which is regarded as a primary key. The response is a glass type, which has seven discrete values. The following is taken from the website:

The study of classification of types of glass was motivated by criminological investigation. At the scene of the crime, the glass left can be used as evidence.

You can download the dataset from the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Hands-On-Exploratory-Data-Analysis-with-R/tree/master/ch10.

The user can refer to the following link for more information regarding the dataset: https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/glass+identification.

This section is all about understanding the dataset and its attributes. We will implement the following steps, as we did in the previous chapters, to understand the attribute...

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Radhika Datar

Radhika Datar has more than 5 years' experience in software development and content writing. She is well versed in frameworks such as Python, PHP, and Java, and regularly provides training on them. She has been working with Educba and Eduonix as a training consultant since June 2016, while also working as a freelance academic writer in data science and data analytics. She obtained her master's degree from the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research and her bachelor's degree from K. J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce.
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Harish Garg

Harish Garg is a Principal Software Developer, author, and co-founder of a software development and training company, Bignumworks. Harish has more than 19 years of experience in a wide variety of technologies, including blockchain, data science and enterprise software. During this time, he has worked for companies such as McAfee, Intel, etc.
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