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Predictive Analytics using Rattle and Qlik Sense

Predictive Analytics using Rattle and Qlik Sense

By : Ferran Garcia Pagans, Fernando G Pagans
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Predictive Analytics using Rattle and Qlik Sense

Predictive Analytics using Rattle and Qlik Sense

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By: Ferran Garcia Pagans, Fernando G Pagans

Overview of this book

If you are a business analyst who wants to understand how to improve your data analysis and how to apply predictive analytics, then this book is ideal for you. This book assumes you have some basic knowledge of statistics and a spreadsheet editor such as Excel, but knowledge of QlikView is not required.
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Chapter 3. Exploring and Understanding Your Data

In the previous chapter, we've explained how to load data and how to transform it using Rattle. In this chapter, we're going to learn how use Rattle to:

  • Summarize dataset characteristics
  • Identify missing values in the data
  • Create charts to represent data point distributions

We have two main objectives when we explore data. We would like to understand the problem we want to solve and we want to understand the structure of the dataset in order to choose the most appropriate predictive technique.

If you are a business analyst, Qlik Sense is a great tool to explore and understand your data. With Qlik Sense, you can find relationships between customers, products, and sales people in a very intuitive way. In the next chapter, we're going to learn how to use Qlik Sense to load and explore data.

As some predictive techniques are based on statistics, if you are preparing a dataset to apply a predictive technique, you would probably...

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