Setting Up Our Data Analysis Environment

In this chapter, we will look at how Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) benefits businesses and has a significant impact on almost all vertical markets.

EDA is nothing but a pattern of analyzing datasets to summarize their main features, mostly with visual methods. We will list the R packages and tools that are required to do EDA. We will also focus on the installation procedure and setting up the packages for the EDA environment from an R perspective.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• The benefits of EDA across vertical markets
• The most popular R packages for EDA
• Installing the required R packages and tools