The Five-Step Process for Data Exploration in a Jupyter Notebook

Ted Petrou
Dunder Data
Published in
6 min readMar 11, 2019

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I also have a video from the Dunder Data YouTube channel where I demonstrate this entire process. I believe this is a post that is better viewed as a demonstration, so if you have the time see the video below.

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If you want to be trusted to make decisions using pandas, you must become an expert. I have completely mastered pandas and have developed courses and exercises that will massively improve your knowledge and efficiency to do data analysis.

A major pain point for beginners is writing too many lines of code in a single cell. When you are learning, you need to get feedback on every single line of code that you write and verify that it is in fact correct. Only once you have verified the result should you move on to the next line of code.

To help increase your ability to do data exploration in Jupyter Notebooks, I…

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Ted Petrou
Dunder Data

Author of Master Data Analysis with Python and Founder of Dunder Data