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Monday 19 March 2018

Quick and clever data sparsity / density tool

Hi all,

Just a quick post today to share a clever python tool I’m using for data sparsity / density analysis.

  • Data sparsity : number or percentage of cells that are empty.
  • Data density : number or percentage of cells that contain information.

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It’s quite common to find tools or libraries that aim to analyse data and deliver indicators. What I wanted is to have a datavisualization tool in order to display a meaningful picture of data density / sparsity.

Here comes “missingno”, developed by Aleksey Bilogur, a really talented data analyst from NYC, and available on github.

No more bla-bla, here is what you can get with simple python code within your Jupyter editor.

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You can clearly see the amout of data available for each column. Not the nice sparkline on the right, showing “missing data bursts”.

Different plots are available, have a look on this “heatmap” showing nullity correlation : how the presence or absence of one variable has a correlation in the presence of another.

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Bars, GeoPlot and Dendogram are also available.

Definitely a must have tool for all python and data enthusiasts.

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