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Gururajan Govindan
Gururajan Govindan
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Gururajan Govindan

Gururajan Govindan is a data scientist, intrapreneur, and trainer with more than seven years of experience working across domains such as finance and insurance. He is also an author of The Data Analysis Workshop, a book focusing on data analytics. He is well known for his expertise in data-driven decision-making and machine learning with Python.
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Shubhangi Hora
Shubhangi Hora
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Shubhangi Hora

Shubhangi Hora is a data scientist, Python developer, and published writer. With a background in computer science and psychology, she is particularly passionate about healthcare-related AI, including mental health. Shubhangi is also a trained musician.
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Konstantin Palagachev
Konstantin Palagachev
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Konstantin Palagachev

Konstantin Palagachev holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and optimization, with an interest in operations research and data analysis. He is recognized for his passion for delivering data-driven solutions and expertise in the area of urban mobility, autonomous driving, insurance, and finance. He is also a devoted coach and mentor, dedicated to sharing his knowledge and passion for data science.
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Introduction

In the previous chapter, we looked at a dataset regarding credit cards, which was used to predict whether or not the customers would default. We applied different data analysis techniques, such as univariate analysis and bivariate analysis, to understand and process customers' payment histories and identify relationships between different features.

In this chapter, we are going to work with a dataset from the medical industry. This dataset is called the Heart Disease dataset and has been published in the UCI Machine Learning Repository. This dataset originally contained 75 attributes, but only 14 of those attributes have been used by published experiments, so we will also be using this subset for our data analysis. The dataset uses a lot of medical terminology that you may be unfamiliar with, but the features will be explained in the exercises so that you are aware of what you are analyzing.

We will be checking for outliers, missing values, and the trends and...

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Gururajan Govindan

Gururajan Govindan is a data scientist, intrapreneur, and trainer with more than seven years of experience working across domains such as finance and insurance. He is also an author of The Data Analysis Workshop, a book focusing on data analytics. He is well known for his expertise in data-driven decision-making and machine learning with Python.
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Shubhangi Hora

Shubhangi Hora is a data scientist, Python developer, and published writer. With a background in computer science and psychology, she is particularly passionate about healthcare-related AI, including mental health. Shubhangi is also a trained musician.
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Konstantin Palagachev

Konstantin Palagachev holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics and optimization, with an interest in operations research and data analysis. He is recognized for his passion for delivering data-driven solutions and expertise in the area of urban mobility, autonomous driving, insurance, and finance. He is also a devoted coach and mentor, dedicated to sharing his knowledge and passion for data science.
Read more about Konstantin Palagachev