Your First Date with Data: Roadmap to Explore Any Dataset for Any Domain
This post is based on content from Your First Date with Data by Baraa Khatib Salkini Introduction Namaste! Let me share a quick story: every time I jump into a new project, I roll up my sleeves and start solving problems right away. But in my early days, I’d skip straight to heavy analysis—querying tables I didn’t fully understand, or building models with data I hadn’t really looked at. The result? Confusing errors, weird outliers, and sometimes flat-out wrong conclusions. Eventually, I realized the importance of slowing down and giving the data a proper “hello.” In other words: Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA). ...