Machine Learning / 03
Data Preparation
Plan how to inspect, clean, split, and transform data before training a model.
This is a knowledge index. Published titles open their articles; the remaining entries outline planned coverage.
Subtopics
- 03.01
Understanding a Dataset
Planned guide: Understanding a Dataset. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.02
Structured vs Unstructured Data
Planned guide: Structured vs Unstructured Data. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.03
Numerical Variables
Planned guide: Numerical Variables. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.04
Categorical Variables
Planned guide: Categorical Variables. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.05
Ordinal Variables
Planned guide: Ordinal Variables. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.06
Missing Values
Planned guide: Missing Values. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.07
Duplicate Records
Planned guide: Duplicate Records. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.08
Outliers
Planned guide: Outliers. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.09
Invalid Values
Planned guide: Invalid Values. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.10
Data Leakage
Planned guide: Data Leakage. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.11
Train / Validation / Test Split
Planned guide: Train / Validation / Test Split. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.12
Random Sampling
Planned guide: Random Sampling. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.13
Stratified Sampling
Planned guide: Stratified Sampling. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.14
Time-Based Splits
Planned guide: Time-Based Splits. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.15
Data Transformation
Planned guide: Data Transformation. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.16
Normalization
Planned guide: Normalization. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.17
Standardization
Planned guide: Standardization. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.
- 03.18
Robust Scaling
Planned guide: Robust Scaling. Focus on intuition, assumptions, and a worked example.


