From the course: Data Science Foundations: Data Assessment for Predictive Modeling
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Describe data demo using the UCI heart dataset
From the course: Data Science Foundations: Data Assessment for Predictive Modeling
Describe data demo using the UCI heart dataset
- [Instructor] Okay, welcome to a brand new data set. This is the heart disease data set from the UCI Machine Learning repository. I want to make a couple of general comments. First, we're introducing this dataset for extra reinforcement of the skills. So we won't be introducing new concepts, we're going to be practicing them on this new data set. We'll be doing that in the current section. And then further along in the course when we've added some skills to our toolkit. Okay, let's take a look at the data dictionary that's been provided here, that's always helpful. So the first thing perhaps that you might notice is that there's a very small number of instances. Try not to be too distracted by that because this is what I want you to imagine might happen. I encounter this in real world projects all the time. The data collection might be ongoing. This data is being collected. It seems like measurements of patients basically…
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