How do you clean and preprocess data?
Data is the fuel of data science, but it is often messy, incomplete, or inconsistent. To make it ready for analysis, you need to clean and preprocess it. This means applying various techniques to detect and correct errors, remove outliers, handle missing values, normalize, transform, and encode features, and reduce dimensionality. In this article, you will learn how to clean and preprocess data for your data science projects using Python and some popular libraries.