diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 9aecbc3..72ec327 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -52,11 +52,20 @@ Other requirements may including ___normalizing___ data sets, which generally means scaling the data to values between 0 and 1 (this enables certain types of numerical analysis). +There are several techniques used in data normalization and standardization, and three commonly applied methods include: +Min-Max Normalization: This technique rescales the data to a fixed range, usually between 0 and 1. +This method is useful when features have different scales but no significant outliers. + +Z-score Standardization (Standard Scaling): This method transforms data to have a mean of 0 and a standard deviation of 1. +Robust Scaling: This method uses the median and interquartile range (IQR) to scale data, making it more robust to outliers + The end result may sometimes be referred to as ___tidy data___, however it is important to remember that data cleaning is not always a one-time task. The further use of any given dataset may well highlight details that need further cleaning. + + ## Exploration Lets start with our first dataset.