- Exploratory data analysis (EDA) is used to summarize and visualize data to understand its key characteristics, variables, and relationships.
- In R, EDA involves descriptive statistics like mean, median, and mode as well as graphical methods like histograms, density plots, and box plots.
- Functions like head(), tail(), summary(), and str() provide information about the structure, dimensions, and descriptive statistics of data frames in R. Additional functions like pairs plots and faceted histograms allow visualizing relationships between variables.