Exercise

The importance of EDA

Why should exploratory data analysis be the first step in an analysis of data (after getting your data imported and cleaned, of course)?

50 XP

You can be protected from misinterpretation of the type demonstrated by Anscombe's quartet.

EDA provides a good starting point for planning the rest of your analysis.

EDA is not really any more difficult than any of the subsequent analysis, so there is no excuse for not exploring the data.

All of these reasons!