2009Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Computational StatisticsOpen access

Exploratory data analysis

Stephan Morgenthaler

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Abstract Exploratory data analysis, or EDA for short, is a term coined by John W. Tukey for describing the act of looking at data to see what it seems to say. This article gives a description of some typical EDA procedures and discusses some of the principles of EDA. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This article is categorized under: Statistical and Graphical Methods of Data Analysis > Statistical Graphics and Visualization

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Abstract Exploratory data analysis, or EDA for short, is a term coined by John W. Tukey for describing the act of looking at data to see what it seems to say. This article gives a description of some typical EDA procedures and discusses some of the principles of EDA. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This article is categorized under: Statistical and Graphical Methods of Data Analysis > Statistical Graphics and Visualization

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Abstract Exploratory data analysis, or EDA for short, is a term coined by John W. Tukey for describing the act of looking at data to see what it seems to say. This article gives a description of some typical EDA procedures and discusses some of the principles of EDA. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. This article is categorized under: Statistical and Graphical Methods of Data Analysis > Statistical Graphics and Visualization

Key concepts: Exploratory data analysis, Exploratory analysis, Statistical analysis, Computer science, Graphics, Visualization, Statistical graphics, Data visualization

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