Data Exploration | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/data-exploration/ Publish AI, ML & data-science insights to a global community of data professionals. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:17:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://towardsdatascience.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/cropped-Favicon-32x32.png Data Exploration | Towards Data Science https://towardsdatascience.com/tag/data-exploration/ 32 32 Geospatial exploratory data analysis with GeoPandas and DuckDB https://towardsdatascience.com/geospatial-exploratory-data-analysis-with-geopandas-and-duckdb/ Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:17:00 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/?p=607897 In this article, I’ll show you how to use two popular Python libraries to carry out some geospatial analysis of traffic accident data within the UK. I was a relatively early adopter of DuckDB, the fast OLAP database, after it became available, but only recently realised that, through an extension, it offered a large number […]

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]]> The MMD-Critic Method, Explained https://towardsdatascience.com/the-mmd-critic-method-explained-c6a77f2dbf18/ Tue, 27 Aug 2024 16:58:07 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-mmd-critic-method-explained-c6a77f2dbf18/ A powerful yet under-the-radar method for data summarization and explainable AI

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]]> From Data-Informed to Data-Driven Decisions: An Introduction to Tradespace Exploration https://towardsdatascience.com/from-data-informed-to-data-driven-decisions-an-introduction-to-tradespace-exploration-ae760b594d27/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 14:24:27 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/from-data-informed-to-data-driven-decisions-an-introduction-to-tradespace-exploration-ae760b594d27/ Going beyond Exploratory Data Analysis to find the needle in the haystack

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]]> Fast and Easy Data Exploration for Machine Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/fast-and-easy-data-exploration-for-machine-learning-3fbee7d9c16b/ Wed, 15 Jun 2022 23:44:44 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/fast-and-easy-data-exploration-for-machine-learning-3fbee7d9c16b/ Open-source library Sweetviz is the way

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]]> Stacked Data Exploration - a new and advanced way to explore your data https://towardsdatascience.com/stacked-data-exploration-a-new-and-advanced-way-to-explore-your-data-a1fba36d5a39/ Sat, 02 Apr 2022 09:58:04 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/stacked-data-exploration-a-new-and-advanced-way-to-explore-your-data-a1fba36d5a39/ Get started with limitless possibilities of stacked data exploration

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]]> A Frequency Analysis on Wordle https://towardsdatascience.com/a-frequency-analysis-on-wordle-9c5778283363/ Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:55:53 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/a-frequency-analysis-on-wordle-9c5778283363/ Exploring letters frequencies to find the optimal first word

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]]> Painlessly Speed Up Your Data Analysis in Python with Mito https://towardsdatascience.com/painlessly-speed-up-your-data-analysis-in-python-with-mito-2b79de4f2f46/ Sun, 12 Dec 2021 16:20:15 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/painlessly-speed-up-your-data-analysis-in-python-with-mito-2b79de4f2f46/ A Quick Way to Clean, Filter, and Visualize Python Data in a Spreadsheet Format

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]]> How to Find Korean Actors for Binge-Watching with Machine Learning https://towardsdatascience.com/korean-actor-recommendation-using-machine-learning-e7ba26e3926/ Mon, 06 Dec 2021 05:25:15 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/korean-actor-recommendation-using-machine-learning-e7ba26e3926/ Let Me Find You The Closest Actors to Your Favourite Korean Actor

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]]> When the Hammer Meets the Dance https://towardsdatascience.com/when-the-hammer-meets-the-dance-f1c86386f161/ Thu, 28 Oct 2021 07:02:23 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/when-the-hammer-meets-the-dance-f1c86386f161/ An eagle-eye comparison of Social Distancing Policy rollouts between Germany and Sweden early into the COVID-19 pandemic

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]]> How do people move when social distancing becomes the rule https://towardsdatascience.com/how-do-people-move-when-social-distancing-becomes-the-rule-64af52857640/ Sat, 23 Oct 2021 17:23:22 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/how-do-people-move-when-social-distancing-becomes-the-rule-64af52857640/ Uncovering the impact of shelter-in-place requirements on mobility behavior among German and Swedish residents early into the Covid-19...

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]]> Data Exploration, Understanding, and Visualization https://towardsdatascience.com/data-exploration-understanding-and-visualization-72657f5eac41/ Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:36:07 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/data-exploration-understanding-and-visualization-72657f5eac41/ Generate visualizations to understand your data quickly

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]]> Introduction to Pandas – Part 2: Quick Data Exploration https://towardsdatascience.com/introduction-to-pandas-part-2-quick-data-exploration-582fc9b0de28/ Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:30:25 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/introduction-to-pandas-part-2-quick-data-exploration-582fc9b0de28/ Explore data with a few lines of codes using Pandas and Pandas_Profiling

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]]> Be a Proteomic Detective with Python https://towardsdatascience.com/be-a-proteomic-detective-with-python-6ea18ef3f8f3/ Thu, 08 Jul 2021 21:58:14 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/be-a-proteomic-detective-with-python-6ea18ef3f8f3/ Inspecting the quality of isobaric labeling proteomics results in a Jupyter notebook

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]]> Anomaly Detection in Manufacturing, Part 1: An Introduction https://towardsdatascience.com/anomaly-detection-in-manufacturing-part-1-an-introduction-8c29f70fc68b/ Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:41:26 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/anomaly-detection-in-manufacturing-part-1-an-introduction-8c29f70fc68b/ Work in manufacturing? Supercharge your business with data science and machine learning

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]]> Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Earthquake on Traffic Flow in the Narrow City Center https://towardsdatascience.com/impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-the-earthquake-on-traffic-flow-in-the-narrow-city-center-5513be654a15/ Sat, 15 May 2021 10:30:10 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/impact-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-the-earthquake-on-traffic-flow-in-the-narrow-city-center-5513be654a15/ On how to find hidden phenomena by mining the traffic data

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]]> 5 Basic Commands to Get Started with dplyr in R https://towardsdatascience.com/five-basic-commands-to-getting-started-with-dplyr-in-r-c8b0451ad916/ Thu, 18 Mar 2021 02:45:51 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/five-basic-commands-to-getting-started-with-dplyr-in-r-c8b0451ad916/ Dplyr is equivalent to the Pandas library in Python which enables easy data exploration and manipulation

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]]> The Data Quadrants of Haves and Needs https://towardsdatascience.com/the-data-quadrants-of-haves-and-needs-df3d997294ec/ Sun, 07 Feb 2021 17:42:30 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-data-quadrants-of-haves-and-needs-df3d997294ec/ An offbeat approach to prioritize your features for data analysis and building machine learning models

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]]> A simple exploration of a Telegram chat-group https://towardsdatascience.com/a-simple-exploration-of-a-telegram-chat-group-540a1e96ad75/ Sat, 21 Nov 2020 05:43:35 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/a-simple-exploration-of-a-telegram-chat-group-540a1e96ad75/ What does a group of guys chat about?

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]]> Complete Data Science project: Data Understanding https://towardsdatascience.com/complete-data-science-project-data-understanding-d4c937a0071c/ Thu, 19 Nov 2020 13:59:10 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/complete-data-science-project-data-understanding-d4c937a0071c/ Project of forecasting the number of orders in a production company listed on the stock exchange based on the Global Management Challenge.

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]]> The unpleasant work of Data Exploration https://towardsdatascience.com/the-unpleasant-work-of-data-exploration-e9dde7180f5c/ Wed, 04 Nov 2020 08:58:33 +0000 https://towardsdatascience.com/the-unpleasant-work-of-data-exploration-e9dde7180f5c/ Create a stage for your explorative results using streamlit and maximize the effect while minimizing the effort.

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