Pardon me if this question does not fit this site (or SE engine in general) but I do not know where to post it. Suppose that you have unknown data set which you want to explore. What functions/methods/techniques should I use to get birds eye of the data? I guess it depends on the data. I'm particularly interests in the ordered integers (but feel free to post other types also). Few examples that comes to my mind are: histograms, barplots, (moving) mean (aka average) median mode variance standard-deviation. What else? Thank you.
Asked
Active
Viewed 41 times
0
-
It depends to a large extent on what you want to do with that data, more so than on characteristics of the data itself. – Maarten Buis Mar 29 '16 at 20:30
-
@MaartenBuis thanks for reply. I've expected such answer therefore I'm asking for birds view. Can you recommend e.g. some literature ? – Wakan Tanka Mar 29 '16 at 20:37
-
This is a broad question: it would seem to require [entire books to answer](http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/22434). I dislike the duplicate thread (because the answers focus on graphical techniques rather than on EDA *per se*), but it looks like exactly the question you are asking. – whuber Mar 29 '16 at 20:37
-
@whuber hmm seems that the linked question is mainly dealing with problems related to visualization. – Wakan Tanka Mar 29 '16 at 20:56