From the course: Data Science Foundations: Data Assessment for Predictive Modeling
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A simple strategy for organizing your work
From the course: Data Science Foundations: Data Assessment for Predictive Modeling
A simple strategy for organizing your work
- [Instructor] I'm in the Census Income Dataset spreadsheet, but I've added a new tab. I've added a tab where I'm going to be placing some notes, and this is just to illustrate a very simple strategy for organizing your work while performing this task. So what I've done is I've taken all the variable names and then transposed them, so that constitutes my first column here, just all the variable names. Then I've come up with several column headers. Now there's nothing magic about these column headers. They're similar to ones that I will typically use. On each project, I might add or subtract some very basic things, but what I have is where the data's come from, so notice that a number of these are just coming from the original source. I put UCI here, I could've put census as the source. Frankly most of the time, it's going to be an explicit reference to a data warehouse table, but on occasion you won't be getting it from…
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