UNIT - I

Introduction to Data Science

Data Science
T. Y. BTECH

SCHOOL OF mechanical EGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

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Data Science: Why all the
Excitement?
Exciting new effective
applications of data analytics

e.g.,
Google Flu Trends:

Detecting outbreaks two

weeks ahead of CDC data

New models are estimating

which cities are most at risk
for spread of the Ebola virus.

Prediction model is built on

Various data sources,
types and analysis.

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“Big Data” Sources
It’s All Happening On-line User Generated (Web &
Every: Mobile)
Click
Ad impression
Billing event
…
Fast Forward, pause,… ..
Server request
Transaction
Network message
Fault
…

Internet of Things / M2M Health/Scientific Computing

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 Graph Data
Lots of interesting data has a graph structure:
• Social networks
• Communication networks
• Computer Networks
• Road networks
• Citations
• Collaborations/Relationships
• …

Some of these graphs can get

quite large (e.g., Facebook*
user graph)

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 What can you do with the data?

Crowd sourcing + physical modeling + sensing + data assimilation

to produce:

From Alex Bayen, UCB

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The Million-Server Data Center

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 5 Vs of Big Data

• Raw Data: Volume

• Change over time: Velocity
• Data types: Variety
• Data Quality: Veracity
• Information for Decision Making: Value

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DATA SCIENCE – WHAT IS IT?

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 Data Science – A Definition

Data Science is the science which uses computer

science, statistics, machine learning,
visualization and human-computer interactions
to collect, clean, integrate, analyze, visualize,
interact with data to create data products.

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 Ben Fry’s Model
Visualizing Data Process
1. Acquire
2. Parse
3. Filter
4. Mine
5. Represent
6. Refine
7. Interact

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 Jeff Hammerbacher’s Model
1. Identify problem

2. Instrument data sources

3. Collect data

4. Prepare data (integrate, transform, clean, filter, aggregate)

5. Build model

6. Evaluate model

7. Communicate results

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Data Scientist’s Practice

Clean,
prep

Hypothesize Large Scale

Digging Around Model Exploitation
in Data

Evaluate
Interpret

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The Big Picture

Extract
Transform
Load

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The Big Picture

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Data Science: Getting Value out of
Data

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Data Science: Getting Value out of
Data

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Data Science: Getting Value out of
Data

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Data Science: Getting Value out of
Data

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Why the Increased Interest in Data
Science?

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 Applications

• Climate change and weather

• Traffic control
• Agriculture
• Personalised healthcare
• Twitter data analysis
• Facebook information links
• Pollution and Weather

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 Contrast: Databases
Databases Data Science
Data Value “Precious” “Cheap”
Data Volume Modest Massive
Examples Bank records, Online clicks,
Personnel records, GPS logs,
Census, Tweets,
Medical records Building sensor readings
Priorities Consistency, Speed,
Error recovery, Availability,
Auditability Query richness
Structured Strongly (Schema) Weakly or none (Text)
Properties Transactions, ACID* CAP* theorem (2/3),
eventual consistency
Realizations SQL NoSQL:
MongoDB, CouchDB,
Hbase, Cassandra,…
ACID = Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability CAP = Consistency, Availability, Partition Tolerance
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Contrast: BI

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Contrast: AI

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Modern Data Science Skills

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Data Analysts vs Data Scientists

Modern Data Science Skills

DATA ANALYST SKILLS DATA SCIENTIST SKILLS

Data Mining Data Mining
Data Warehousing Data Warehousing
Math, Statistics Math, Statistics, Computer
Science
Tableau and Data Visualization Tableau and Data
Visualization/Storytelling
SQL Python, R, JAVA, Scala, SQL,
Matlab, Pig
Business Intelligence Economics
SAS Big Data/Hadoop
Advanced Excel skills Machine Learning

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Why Python for Data Science???

https://www.kdnuggets.com/2019/05/poll-top-data-science-machine-learning-platforms.html

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 The Structure Spectrum

Structured Semi-Structured Unstructured

(schema-first) (schema-later) (schema-never)

Relational Documents Plain Text

Database XML
Media
Formatted Tagged
Messages Text/Media

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Key Concept: Structured Data
A data model is a collection of concepts for
describing data.

A schema is a description of a particular

collection of data, using a given data model.

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 NumPy/Python
• NumPy is a Python library used for working with arrays.
• It also has functions for working in domain of linear algebra, Fourier transform, and
matrices.
• NumPy stands for Numerical Python.
• In Python we have lists that serve the purpose of arrays, but they are slow to
process.
• NumPy aims to provide an array object that is up to 50x faster than traditional
Python lists.
• The array object in NumPy is called ndarray, it provides a lot of supporting
functions that make working with ndarray very easy.
• Arrays are very frequently used in data science, where speed and resources are very
important
• NumPy arrays are stored at one continuous place in memory unlike lists, so
processes can access and manipulate them very efficiently

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 Pandas
• Pandas officially stands for ‘Python Data Analysis
Library’, THE most important Python tool used by Data
Scientists today.
• Pandas is an open source Python library that allows users to
explore, manipulate and visualise data in an extremely
efficient manner. It is literally Microsoft Excel in Python.
• It is easy to read and learn
• It is extremely fast and powerful
• It integrates well with other visualisation libraries
• Pandas can take in a huge variety of data, the most common
ones are csv, excel, sql or even a webpage.

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 Pandas/Python

• Series: a named, ordered dictionary

– The keys of the dictionary are the indexes
– Built on NumPy’s ndarray
– Values can be any Numpy data type object

• Data Frame: a table with named columns

– Represented as a Dict (col_name -> series)
– Each Series object represents a column

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 Operations
• map() functions
• filter (apply predicate to rows)
• sort/group by aggregate: sum, count, average, max,
min
• Pivot or reshape -- To reshape the data frame from
long to wide in Pandas, we can use Pandas' pd. pivot()
method. columns : Column to use to make new
frame's columns (e.g., 'Year Month').
• Relational:
– union, intersection, difference, Cartesian product (CROSS
JOIN)
– select/filter, project
– join: natural join (INNER JOIN), theta join, semi-join, etc.
– Rename
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 Applications
Amazing real-time Data Science Applications:
Recommendation- Most of the apps and websites like Amazon, YouTube, Flipkart, etc. give
recommendation over as per the viewer’s interest. Online music applications like Spotify give
recommendations as per your taste in music. So these are good examples of data science
recommendation applications.
Search Results- Machine Learning algorithms used to find the most relevant search for Google
search engines. Such an algorithm used for the most visited sites on google chrome.
Intelligent Assistant- Google assistant, Siri are examples of intelligent assistants. The advanced
machine learning algorithm converts voice input into text output. These smart assistants
recognize the voice and provide the required information in both voice and text outputs.
Autonomous driving vehicles- Automobile companies like Waymo and Tesla looking for the
next generation of autonomous vehicles. 3D images were taken by the cameras and the
information provided to the algorithms for further processing.
Piracy Detection- YouTube is an example of piracy detection using machine learning
algorithms. Due to the big database, copied contents cannot be detected manually. So it helps
to detect and remove the copied content to reduce human efforts.
Image Recognition- Facebook is the application that uses image recognition by data science
and machine learning for the friend suggestion. Even Google lens uses an image recognition
algorithm to provide the related information to you.
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Data Cleaning-Dirty Data
• The Statistics View:
• There is a process that produces data
• We want to model ideal samples of that process, but
in practice we have non-ideal samples:
• Distortion – some samples are corrupted by a process
• Selection Bias - likelihood of a sample depends on its
value
• Left and right censorship - users come and go from our
scrutiny
• Dependence – samples are supposed to be independent,
but are not (e.g. social networks)

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 Dirty Data

• The Database View:

• Some of the values are missing, corrupted, wrong,
duplicated
• Results are absolute (relational model)
• You get a better answer by improving the quality of
the values in your dataset
• The Domain Expert’s View:
• This Data Doesn’t look right
• This Answer Doesn’t look right
• What happened?

• Domain experts have an implicit model of the data that

they can test against…
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 Dirty Data

• The Data Scientist’s View:

• Some Combination of all of the above

Solution:

Data wrangling is the process of removing errors and combining

complex data sets to make them more accessible and easier to
analyze. Due to the rapid expansion of the amount of data and data
sources available today, storing and organizing large quantities of data for
analysis is becoming increasingly necessary.
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 Dirty Data
The 5 Most Common Types of Dirty Data (and how to clean them)
1. Duplicate Data.
Duplicate data are records or entries that negligently share data with another
record in your database. ...
1. Outdated Data. ...
2. Incomplete Data. ...
3. Inaccurate/Incorrect Data. ...
4. Inconsistent Data.

How to clean data

Step 1: Remove duplicate or irrelevant observations. Remove unwanted observations from
your dataset, including duplicate observations or irrelevant observations. ...
Step 2: Fix structural errors. ...
Step 3: Filter unwanted outliers. ...
Step 4: Handle missing data. ...
Step 5: Validate and QA.

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Data Quality Problems
• (Source) Data is dirty on its own.
• Transformations corrupt the data (complexity of
software pipelines).
• Data sets are clean but integration (i.e., combining
them) screws them up.
• “Rare” errors can become frequent after
transformation or integration.
• Data sets are clean but suffer “bit rot”
• Old data loses its value/accuracy over time
• Any combination of the above
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Big Picture: Where can Dirty Data Arise?

Integrate
Clean

Extract
Transform
Load

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Numeric Outliers

Adapted from Joe Hellerstein’s 2012 CS 194 Guest Lecture 42

 Dirty Data Problems
1) Parsing text into fields (separator issues)
2) Naming conventions: ER: NYC vs New York City
3) Missing required field (e.g. key field)
4) Different representations (2 vs Two)
5) Fields too long (get truncated)
6) Primary key violation (from un- to structured or
during integration
7) Redundant Records (exact match or other)
8) Formatting issues – especially dates
9) Licensing issues/Privacy/ keep you from using the
data as you would like?

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Conventional Definition of Data Quality

• Accuracy
– The data was recorded correctly.
• Completeness
– All relevant data was recorded.
• Uniqueness
– Entities are recorded once.
• Timeliness
– The data is kept up to date.
• Special problems in federated data: time consistency.
• Consistency
– The data agrees with itself.

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 How we can deal with the noisy data
• Data Binning : In this approach sorting of data is performed concerning the
values of the neighborhood. This method is also known as local smoothing.
• Preprocessing in Clustering : In this approach, the outliers may be detected
by grouping the similar data in the same group, i.e., in the same cluster.
• Machine Learning : A Machine Learning algorithm can be executed for
smoothing of data. For example, Regression Algorithm can be used for
smoothing of data using a specified linear function.
• Removing manually: The noisy data can be deleted manually by the human
being, but it is a time-consuming process, so mostly this method is not given
priority. Noisy data is meaningless data. The term has often been used as a
synonym for corrupt data. However, its meaning has expanded to include
any data that cannot be understood and interpreted correctly by machines,
such as unstructured data.

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Missing, Noisy and inconsistent Data

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What is Data Preprocessing?

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Data Preprocessing

Data Preprocessing is a technique that is used to

convert the raw data into a clean data set.
Data is gathered from different sources it is collected in
raw format which is not feasible for the analysis.

The set of steps is known as Data Preprocessing. It

includes –
• Data Cleaning
• Data Integration
• Data Transformation
• Data Reduction

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Why is Data Preparation Important?
• Data Preprocessing is necessary because of the presence of
unformatted real-world data.

Mostly real-world data is composed of –

• Inaccurate data (missing data) – There are many reasons for
missing data such as data is not continuously collected, a
mistake in data entry, technical problems with biometrics
and much more.
• The presence of noisy data (erroneous data and outliers)
– The reasons for the existence of noisy data could be a
technological problem of gadget that gathers data, a human
mistake during data entry and much more.
• Inconsistent data – The presence of inconsistencies are due
to the reasons such that existence of duplication within data,
human data entry, containing mistakes in codes or names,
i.e., violation of data constraints and much more.

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How is Data Preprocessing performed?
How missing data can be handled.
Three different steps can be executed which are given below –
• Ignoring the missing record – It is the simplest and efficient method for
handling the missing data. But, this method should not be performed at the
time when the number of missing values are immense or when the pattern
of data is related to the unrecognized primary root of the cause of statement
problem.
• Filling the missing values manually – This is one of the best-chosen
methods. But there is one limitation that when there are large data set, and
missing values are significant then, this approach is not efficient as it
becomes a time-consuming task.
• Filling using computed values – The missing values can also be occupied
by computing mean, mode or median of the observed given values.
Another method could be the predictive values that are computed by using
any Machine Learning or Deep Learning algorithm.

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Tasks of Data Preparation
• Data Cleaning :This is the first step which is implemented in Data
Preprocessing. In this step, the primary focus is on handling missing data,
noisy data, detection, and removal of outliers, minimizing duplication and
computed biases within the data.
• Data Integration :This process is used when data is gathered from various
data sources and data are combined to form consistent data. This
consistent data after performing data cleaning is used for analysis.
• Data Transformation :This step is used to convert the raw data into a
specified format according to the need of the model. The options used
for transformation of data are given below –
• Normalization – In this method, numerical data is converted into the
specified range, i.e., between 0 and 1 so that scaling of data can be
performed.
• Aggregation – This method is used to combine the features into one. For
example, combining two categories can be used to form a new group.
• Generalization – In this case, lower level attributes are converted to a
higher standard.
• Data Reduction :After the transformation and scaling of data duplication,
i.e., redundancy within the data is removed and efficiently organize the
data.
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What Is Data Wrangling?
• It is used to convert the raw data into the format that is convenient
for the consumption of data. Data Wrangling is a technique that is
executed at the time of making an interactive model.
• Steps:
– extracting the data from different data sources
– sorting of data using certain algorithm is performed
– decompose the data into a different structured format
– finally store the data into another database.

Data is converted to the proper feasible format before applying

any model to it.
By performing filtering, grouping and selecting appropriate data
accuracy and performance of the model could be increased.

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Data Wrangling

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 Data Wrangling in Python
Data wrangling in python deals with the below functionalities:
1.Data exploration: In this process, the data is studied, analyzed and
understood by visualizing representations of data.
2.Dealing with missing values: Most of the datasets having a vast
amount of data contain missing values of NaN, they are needed to be
taken care of by replacing them with mean, mode, the most frequent
value of the column or simply by dropping the row having
a NaN value.
3.Reshaping data: In this process, data is manipulated according to
the requirements, where new data can be added or pre-existing data
can be modified.
4.Filtering data: Some times datasets are comprised of unwanted rows
or columns which are required to be removed or filtered
5.Other: After dealing with the raw dataset with the above
functionalities we get an efficient dataset as per our requirements and
then it can be used for a required purpose like data analyzing,
machine learning, data visualization, model training etc.
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 Why is Data Wrangling Important?

• Data Wrangling is used to handle the issue

of Data Leakage while implementing Machine
Learning and Deep Learning.
• Data Leakage is responsible for the cause of
invalid Machine Learning/Deep Learning
model due to the over optimization of the
applied model.

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Data Leakage
Data Leakage can be demonstrated in many ways that are
given below –

• The Leakage of data from test dataset to training data

set.
• Leakage of computed correct prediction to the training
dataset.
• Leakage of future data into the past data.
• Usage of data outside the scope of the applied
algorithm
• In general, the leakage of data is observed from two
primary sources of Machine Learning/Deep Learning
algorithms such as feature attributes (variables) and
training data set.
• Checking the presence of Data Leakage within the
applied model

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Minimizing Data Leakage

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How is Data Wrangling performed?
• If one considers the complete data set for
normalization and standardization, then the
cross-validation is performed for the estimation of the
performance of the model leads to the beginning of
data leakage.
• The effect of Data Leakage could be minimized by
recalculating for the required Data Preparation during
the cross-validation process that includes feature
selection, outliers detection, and removal, projection
methods, scaling of selected features and much more.
• Another solution is that dividing the complete dataset
into training data set that is used to train the model
and validation dataset which is used to evaluate the
performance and accuracy of the applied model.
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Tasks of Data Wrangling
• Discovering: Firstly, data should be understood thoroughly and
examine which approach will best suit. For example: if have a weather
data when we analyze the data it is observed that data is from one
area and so primary focus is on determining patterns.
• Structuring :As the data is gathered from different sources, the data
will be present in various shapes and sizes. Therefore, there is a need
for structuring the data in proper format.
• Cleaning :Cleaning or removing of data should be performed that can
degrade the performance of analysis.
• Enrichment :Extract new features or data from the given data set to
optimize the performance of the applied model.
• Validating: This approach is used for improving the quality of data and
consistency rules so that transformations that are applied to the data
could be verified.
• Publishing :After completing the steps of Data Wrangling, the steps
can be documented so that similar steps can be performed for the
same kind of data to save time.

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