Master The Skills Of Missing Data Imputation Techniques In Python(2022) And Be Successful

Mrinal Walia
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
6 min readAug 26, 2020

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Most machine learning algorithms expect complete and clean noise-free datasets, unfortunately, real-world datasets are messy and have multiples missing cells, in such cases handling missing data becomes quite complex.

Therefore in today’s article, we are going to discuss some of the most effective and indeed easy-to-use data imputation techniques which can be used to deal with missing data.

So without any further delay, let’s get started.

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What is Data Imputation?

Data Imputation is a method in which the missing values in any variable or data frame(in Machine learning) are filled with numeric values for performing the task. By using this method, the sample size remains the same. Only the blanks which were missing are now filled with some deals. This method is easy to use, but the variance of the dataset is reduced.

Why Data Imputation?

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Mrinal Walia
Analytics Vidhya

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