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There are 2 modules in this course
"Clean, Analyze, and Visualize Your Data" is an intermediate course designed for aspiring AI and data professionals who understand that world-class models are built on high-quality data. In this course, you will move beyond theory and gain hands-on experience in the essential, practical skills of data preparation and exploration. You will learn to implement systematic data cleaning and validation routines using industry-standard tools like Pandera to ensure your datasets are reliable and ready for processing.
Through guided labs in a Jupyter environment, you will master statistical visualization and dimensionality reduction techniques, such as t-SNE, to transform complex, high-dimensional data into clear, interpretable plots. These visualizations will empower you to uncover hidden patterns, identify anomalies, and diagnose issues—like misrouted data clusters—that could impact model accuracy. By the end of this course, you will not just know how to clean data, but you will understand how to analyze and visualize it to derive insights, ensuring your AI development is built on a solid, well-understood foundation.
This module lays the critical foundation for any AI project: data quality. You will immediately confront a data quality challenge to understand why cleaning is essential. You will then learn how to implement systematic routines using Python and the Pandera library to validate a dataset's structure, handle missing values, and prepare raw data so that it is reliable and ready for analysis.
What's included
1 video1 reading1 assignment1 ungraded lab
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1 video•Total 4 minutes
How to Build a Validation Schema with Pandera•4 minutes
1 reading•Total 8 minutes
The Data Wrangler's Toolkit: Core Cleaning Concepts•8 minutes
1 assignment•Total 15 minutes
Data Validation and Imputation: Quiz •15 minutes
1 ungraded lab•Total 20 minutes
Cleaning a Raw Customer Dataset•20 minutes
Dimensionality Reduction for Pattern Discovery
Module 2•1 hour to complete
Module details
High-dimensional data can hide important patterns. In this module, you will learn how to use dimensionality reduction techniques like t-SNE to visualize complex datasets. You will analyze these visualizations to uncover hidden clusters, identify outliers, and diagnose issues that are invisible in raw data, such as a misrouted intent cluster affecting model accuracy.
What's included
2 videos1 reading2 assignments1 ungraded lab
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2 videos•Total 10 minutes
Seeing the Unseen: Finding a Hidden Error Cluster•5 minutes
How to Create and Interpret a t-SNE Plot•5 minutes
1 reading•Total 10 minutes
Taming the Dimensions: An Introduction to t-SNE and PCA•10 minutes
2 assignments•Total 40 minutes
Report: From Data Cleaning to Visual Insight•30 minutes
Analyzing a New Visualization •10 minutes
1 ungraded lab•Total 20 minutes
Visualizing Message Embeddings to Find Errors•20 minutes
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