Getting Started

Overview

Questions

• What makes us understand the context of data?
• How do you approach an unknown dataset?

Objectives

• Getting familiar with the example dataset.
• Facing a common challenge when exploring an unknown dataset.

Challenge 0: What do you see?

Your collaborators sent you a link to one of their tabular datasets with the request to inspect and comment on the collected data.

• Download the data: exampleDataObject.csv (csv file, delimiter: “,”)

• Open the CSV file with your day-to-day data analysis tool (Python, MS Excel, R, Matlab, etc.)

• Inspect the data

• Ask yourself the following questions:

  • Do you get information out of the data?
  • Which challenges do you face?
  • Do you think that something is missing?

• Write down your answers and impressions. You will have the opportunity to discuss them with everyone in the lesson.

Give me a hint

Important: There is no right or wrong in this task. Just note down whatever comes to your mind!