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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 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
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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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9. Analysis of the Energy Consumed by Appliances

Overview

This chapter aims to display the application of general data analysis techniques to a specific use case—analyzing the energy consumed by household appliances. By the end of this chapter, you will be able to analyze individual features of the dataset to assess whether the data is skewed. You will also be equipped to perform feature engineering by creating new features from existing ones, and also to conduct Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) and design informative visualizations.

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we took a look at the retail industry through the dataset of an online retail store based out of the UK. We applied a variety of techniques, such as breaking down the date-time column into individual columns containing the year, month, day of the week, hour, and so on, and creating line graphs to conduct a time series analysis to answer questions such as 'Which month was the most popular for the store?'

This chapter guides you through the data-specific analysis of a real-world domain and situation. This chapter focuses on a dataset containing information regarding the energy consumption of household appliances. The true goal of this dataset is to understand the relationships between the temperature and humidity of various rooms of a house (as well as outside the house) to then predict the energy consumption (usage) of appliances. However, in this chapter, we are just going to analyze the dataset to reveal patterns between the features...

Summary

We have reached the end of this chapter and have successfully analyzed the amount of energy consumed by household appliances based on temperature, humidity, and other external weather conditions. We applied several data analysis techniques, including feature engineering and designing boxplots for specific features, to gain a better understanding of the information that the data contains. Additionally, we also plotted distributions of skewed data to observe them better.

In the next chapter, we will come to the end of our data analysis journey by applying our techniques to one last dataset. We will be analyzing and assessing the air quality of multiple localities in Beijing, China. Be ready to apply all your data analysis knowledge gained so far on this last dataset.

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Authors (3)

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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.
Read more about Shubhangi Hora

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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