Explore your data: Visual exploration

- [Instructor] Most of the projects I work on,…my clients do the data analysis,…but sometimes I have to explore the data…and do analysis myself.…And I'm not a data analyst.…I'm not an expert in this field.…But you know it's always a good idea…to know how to explore your data to some degree…and you really have to think of yourself as an explorer.…You really are trying to discover things in the data…that you don't know going into it…and that really sort of requires an explorer's mindset.…Your mind is open.…You're wandering around just looking…and trying to find new things.…

And there are all kinds of tools out…in the universe to do data analysis…and data exploration these days.…Tableau is a huge tool that many many people are using…across Enterprise and individuals.…Tools like Plotly, sort of cloud-based data analysis tools.…You know real statisticians and data scientists are using…tools like Python or R.…There are software tools like Gephi…that anyone can download and run to do network analysis.…And all kind of mapping tools like Carto…