Automating EDA with ydata-profiling

This repository demonstrates how to automate Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) using the ydata-profiling library (formerly known as pandas-profiling). It simplifies the process of generating a comprehensive EDA report, saving time and ensuring a thorough analysis.

🚀 Features of ydata-profiling

The tool provides the following capabilities:

• Type Inference: Automatically detects data types (Categorical, Numerical, Date, etc.).
• Warnings: Identifies data challenges like missing values, inaccuracies, skewness, and more.
• Univariate Analysis: Generates descriptive statistics (mean, median, mode, etc.) and visualizations like histograms.
• Multivariate Analysis: Includes correlation analysis, missing data summaries, duplicate rows detection, and pairwise variable interactions.
• Time-Series Analysis: Provides insights such as auto-correlation, seasonality, and ACF/PACF plots.
• Text Analysis: Detects most common categories, scripts, and blocks (e.g., Latin, ASCII).
• File & Image Analysis: Reviews file sizes, creation dates, dimensions, and EXIF metadata.
• Dataset Comparison: Quickly compares datasets in one line of code.
• Flexible Output Formats: Reports can be exported as:
  • HTML: Easily shareable interactive reports
  • JSON: Suitable for automation systems
  • Jupyter Notebook Widgets

📂 Project Structure

• data/: Contains sample datasets used for demonstration.
• notebooks/: Jupyter Notebooks showcasing how to use ydata-profiling.
• output/: Stores generated EDA reports.

🛠️ Getting Started

For Pre-requisites & Running Code, Refer: https://github.com/ydataai/ydata-profiling

📊 Sample Output
The output/ folder contains example reports generated with ydata-profiling.

Reports include:
Data summary (missing values, duplicates, etc.)
Visualizations (correlations, distributions, etc.)
Detailed variable analysis

🎥 Credits: Big thanks to https://www.youtube.com/@CodeWithHarry for his excellent tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGQfiyXOvF0&t=1136s on pandas profiling, which inspired this project.

🤝 Contributing: Contributions are welcome! If you have suggestions, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.

📜 License: This project is licensed under the MIT License.

💬 Feedback: If you find this project helpful or have any questions, feel free to reach out!