Practice·Sep 27, 2025·5 min read
Exploratory Analysis Is Not a Warm-Up
EDA gets treated as the boring part you rush through before the 'real' modelling. After analysing Netflix and Spotify catalogs, I'd argue it's the whole game.
Every question I've ever answered well, I answered during exploration — long before any model. The Netflix catalog didn't need a classifier to reveal how heavily it leans on a handful of genres and recent release years.
A good chart is a hypothesis you can see.
Build small tools that answer one question well, rather than dashboards that answer none in particular.
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