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What is data cleaning?

Cleaning transforms raw observations into consistent inputs.

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03 · Practise and check

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Design a cleaning log with columns for row ID, original value, new value and reason. Apply it to five fictional rows.

Check your understanding

Two records from the same city are not duplicates merely because their city field matches. Duplicate rules depend on what one row represents.

A mistake to avoid

If cleaning uses learned statistics such as means, fit those statistics on training data only and apply them unchanged to validation and test data.

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