Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB, 3rd Edition

Praise for the Second Edition:
“The authors present an intuitive and easy-to-read book. … accompanied by many examples, proposed exercises, good references, and comprehensive appendices that initiate the reader unfamiliar with MATLAB.”
―Adolfo Alvarez Pinto, International Statistical Review

“Practitioners of EDA who use MATLAB will want a copy of this book. … The authors have done a great service by bringing together so many EDA routines, but their main accomplishment in this dynamic text is providing the understanding and tools to do EDA.

―David A Huckaby, MAA Reviews

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) is an important part of the data analysis process. The methods presented in this text are ones that should be in the toolkit of every data scientist. As computational sophistication has increased and data sets have grown in size and complexity, EDA has become an even more important process for visualizing and summarizing data before making assumptions to generate hypotheses and models.

Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB, Third Edition

presents EDA methods from a computational perspective and uses numerous examples and applications to show how the methods are used in practice. The authors use MATLAB code, pseudo-code, and algorithm descriptions to illustrate the concepts. The MATLAB code for examples, data sets, and the EDA Toolbox are available for download on the book’s website.

New to the Third Edition

• Random projections and estimating local intrinsic dimensionality
• Deep learning autoencoders and stochastic neighbor embedding
• Minimum spanning tree and additional cluster validity indices
• Kernel density estimation
• Plots for visualizing data distributions, such as beanplots and violin plots
• A chapter on visualizing categorical data

Table of Contents

Part I Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis
Chapter 1 Introduction to Exploratory Data Analysis

Part II EDA as Pattern Discovery
Chapter 2 Dimensionality Reduction — Linear Methods
Chapter 3 Dimensionality Reduction-Nonlinear Methods
Chapter 4 Data Tours
Chapter 5 Finding Clusters
Chapter 6 Model-Based Clustering
Chapter 7 Smoothing Scatterplots

Part III Graphical Methods for EDA
Chapter 8 Visualizing Clusters
Chapter 9 Distribution Shapes
Chapter 10 Multivariate Visualization
Chapter 11 Visualizing Categorical Data

Appendix A Proximity Measures
Appendix B Software Resources for EDA
Appendix C Description of Data Sets
Appendix D MATLAB® Basics