This dataset contains 55,000 entries of synthetic customer transactions, generated using Python's Faker library. The goal behind creating this dataset was to provide a resource for learners like myself to explore, analyze, and apply various data analysis techniques in a context that closely mimics real-world data.

About the Dataset: - CID (Customer ID): A unique identifier for each customer. - TID (Transaction ID): A unique identifier for each transaction. - Gender: The gender of the customer, categorized as Male or Female. - Age Group: Age group of the customer, divided into several ranges. - Purchase Date: The timestamp of when the transaction took place. - Product Category: The category of the product purchased, such as Electronics, Apparel, etc. - Discount Availed: Indicates whether the customer availed any discount (Yes/No). - Discount Name: Name of the discount applied (e.g., FESTIVE50). - Discount Amount (INR): The amount of discount availed by the customer. - Gross Amount: The total amount before applying any discount. - Net Amount: The final amount after applying the discount. - Purchase Method: The payment method used (e.g., Credit Card, Debit Card, etc.). - Location: The city where the purchase took place.

Use Cases: 1. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): This dataset is ideal for conducting EDA, allowing users to practice techniques such as summary statistics, visualizations, and identifying patterns within the data. 2. Data Preprocessing and Cleaning: Learners can work on handling missing data, encoding categorical variables, and normalizing numerical values to prepare the dataset for analysis. 3. Data Visualization: Use tools like Python’s Matplotlib, Seaborn, or Power BI to visualize purchasing trends, customer demographics, or the impact of discounts on purchase amounts. 4. Machine Learning Applications: After applying feature engineering, this dataset is suitable for supervised learning models, such as predicting whether a customer will avail a discount or forecasting purchase amounts based on the input features.

This dataset provides an excellent sandbox for honing skills in data analysis, machine learning, and visualization in a structured but flexible manner.

This is not a real dataset. This dataset was generated using Python's Faker library for the sole purpose of learning

Many upcoming and proposed missions to ocean worlds such as Europa, Enceladus, and Titan aim to evaluate their habitability and the existence of potential life on these moons. These missions will suffer from communication challenges and technology limitations. We review and investigate the applicability of data science and unsupervised machine learning (ML) techniques on isotope ratio mass spectrometry data (IRMS) from volatile laboratory analogs of Europa and Enceladus seawaters as a case study for development of new strategies for icy ocean world missions. Our driving science goal is to determine whether the mass spectra of volatile gases could contain information about the composition of the seawater and potential biosignatures. We implement data science and ML techniques to investigate what inherent information the spectra contain and determine whether a data science pipeline could be designed to quickly analyze data from future ocean worlds missions. In this study, we focus on the exploratory data analysis (EDA) step in the analytics pipeline. This is a crucial unsupervised learning step that allows us to understand the data in depth before subsequent steps such as predictive/supervised learning. EDA identifies and characterizes recurring patterns, significant correlation structure, and helps determine which variables are redundant and which contribute to significant variation in the lower dimensional space. In addition, EDA helps to identify irregularities such as outliers that might be due to poor data quality. We compared dimensionality reduction methods Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for transforming our data from a high-dimensional space to a lower dimension, and we compared clustering algorithms for identifying data-driven groups (“clusters”) in the ocean worlds analog IRMS data and mapping these clusters to experimental conditions such as seawater composition and CO2 concentration. Such data analysis and characterization efforts are the first steps toward the longer-term science autonomy goal where similar automated ML tools could be used onboard a spacecraft to prioritize data transmissions for bandwidth-limited outer Solar System missions.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Rajdeep Kaur Bajwa

Contents

Data Analysis is the process that supports decision-making and informs arguments in empirical studies. Descriptive statistics, Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA), and Confirmatory Data Analysis (CDA) are the approaches that compose Data Analysis (Xia & Gong; 2014). An Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) comprises a set of statistical and data mining procedures to describe data. We ran EDA to provide statistical facts and inform conclusions. The mined facts allow attaining arguments that would influence the Systematic Literature Review of DL4SE.

The Systematic Literature Review of DL4SE requires formal statistical modeling to refine the answers for the proposed research questions and formulate new hypotheses to be addressed in the future. Hence, we introduce DL4SE-DA, a set of statistical processes and data mining pipelines that uncover hidden relationships among Deep Learning reported literature in Software Engineering. Such hidden relationships are collected and analyzed to illustrate the state-of-the-art of DL techniques employed in the software engineering context.

Our DL4SE-DA is a simplified version of the classical Knowledge Discovery in Databases, or KDD (Fayyad, et al; 1996). The KDD process extracts knowledge from a DL4SE structured database. This structured database was the product of multiple iterations of data gathering and collection from the inspected literature. The KDD involves five stages:

Selection. This stage was led by the taxonomy process explained in section xx of the paper. After collecting all the papers and creating the taxonomies, we organize the data into 35 features or attributes that you find in the repository. In fact, we manually engineered features from the DL4SE papers. Some of the features are venue, year published, type of paper, metrics, data-scale, type of tuning, learning algorithm, SE data, and so on.

Preprocessing. The preprocessing applied was transforming the features into the correct type (nominal), removing outliers (papers that do not belong to the DL4SE), and re-inspecting the papers to extract missing information produced by the normalization process. For instance, we normalize the feature “metrics” into “MRR”, “ROC or AUC”, “BLEU Score”, “Accuracy”, “Precision”, “Recall”, “F1 Measure”, and “Other Metrics”. “Other Metrics” refers to unconventional metrics found during the extraction. Similarly, the same normalization was applied to other features like “SE Data” and “Reproducibility Types”. This separation into more detailed classes contributes to a better understanding and classification of the paper by the data mining tasks or methods.

Transformation. In this stage, we omitted to use any data transformation method except for the clustering analysis. We performed a Principal Component Analysis to reduce 35 features into 2 components for visualization purposes. Furthermore, PCA also allowed us to identify the number of clusters that exhibit the maximum reduction in variance. In other words, it helped us to identify the number of clusters to be used when tuning the explainable models.

Data Mining. In this stage, we used three distinct data mining tasks: Correlation Analysis, Association Rule Learning, and Clustering. We decided that the goal of the KDD process should be oriented to uncover hidden relationships on the extracted features (Correlations and Association Rules) and to categorize the DL4SE papers for a better segmentation of the state-of-the-art (Clustering). A clear explanation is provided in the subsection “Data Mining Tasks for the SLR od DL4SE”. 5.Interpretation/Evaluation. We used the Knowledge Discover to automatically find patterns in our papers that resemble “actionable knowledge”. This actionable knowledge was generated by conducting a reasoning process on the data mining outcomes. This reasoning process produces an argument support analysis (see this link).

We used RapidMiner as our software tool to conduct the data analysis. The procedures and pipelines were published in our repository.

Overview of the most meaningful Association Rules. Rectangles are both Premises and Conclusions. An arrow connecting a Premise with a Conclusion implies that given some premise, the conclusion is associated. E.g., Given that an author used Supervised Learning, we can conclude that their approach is irreproducible with a certain Support and Confidence.

Support = Number of occurrences this statement is true divided by the amount of statements Confidence = The support of the statement divided by the number of occurrences of the premise

Data exploration, cleaning, and arrangement with Covid Death and Covid Vaccination which is involved:

1. Data that going to be using

2. Shows the likelihood of dying if you contract covid in your country

3. Show what percentage of the population got Covid

4. Looking at Countries with the Highest Infection Rate compared to the Population

5. Showing the Country with the Highest Death Count per Population

6. Break things down by continent

7. Continents with the Highest death count per population

8. Looking at Total Population vs Vaccinations

9. Used CTE and Temp Table

10. Creating View to store data for later visualizations

One more step towards Machine learning! This is a titatic dataset with exploratory data analysis html file. I used pandas-profiling for fast analysis.

This is an electronic database detailing different types of, various phases of, best practices for, and cost and time associated with geothermal exploration techniques. The groups of exploration techniques included in the database are Data and Modeling Techniques, Downhole Techniques, Drilling Techniques, Field Technologies, Geochemical Techniques, Geophysical Techniques, Lab Analysis Techniques, and Remote Sensing Techniques.

The graph shows the changes in the impact factor of ^ and its corresponding percentile for the sake of comparison with the entire literature. Impact Factor is the most common scientometric index, which is defined by the number of citations of papers in two preceding years divided by the number of papers published in those years.

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Data Science Platform Market Size 2025-2029

The data science platform market size is valued to increase USD 763.9 million, at a CAGR of 40.2% from 2024 to 2029. Integration of AI and ML technologies with data science platforms will drive the data science platform market.

Major Market Trends & Insights

North America dominated the market and accounted for a 48% growth during the forecast period.
By Deployment - On-premises segment was valued at USD 38.70 million in 2023
By Component - Platform segment accounted for the largest market revenue share in 2023

Market Size & Forecast

Market Opportunities: USD 1.00 million
Market Future Opportunities: USD 763.90 million
CAGR : 40.2%
North America: Largest market in 2023

Market Summary

The market represents a dynamic and continually evolving landscape, underpinned by advancements in core technologies and applications. Key technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, are increasingly integrated into data science platforms to enhance predictive analytics and automate data processing. Additionally, the emergence of containerization and microservices in data science platforms enables greater flexibility and scalability. However, the market also faces challenges, including data privacy and security risks, which necessitate robust compliance with regulations.
According to recent estimates, the market is expected to account for over 30% of the overall big data analytics market by 2025, underscoring its growing importance in the data-driven business landscape.

What will be the Size of the Data Science Platform Market during the forecast period?

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How is the Data Science Platform Market Segmented and what are the key trends of market segmentation?

The data science platform industry research report provides comprehensive data (region-wise segment analysis), with forecasts and estimates in 'USD million' for the period 2025-2029, as well as historical data from 2019-2023 for the following segments.

Deployment

  On-premises
  Cloud


Component

  Platform
  Services


End-user

  BFSI
  Retail and e-commerce
  Manufacturing
  Media and entertainment
  Others


Sector

  Large enterprises
  SMEs


Application

  Data Preparation
  Data Visualization
  Machine Learning
  Predictive Analytics
  Data Governance
  Others


Geography

  North America

    US
    Canada


  Europe

    France
    Germany
    UK


  Middle East and Africa

    UAE


  APAC

    China
    India
    Japan


  South America

    Brazil


  Rest of World (ROW)

By Deployment Insights

The on-premises segment is estimated to witness significant growth during the forecast period.

In the dynamic and evolving the market, big data processing is a key focus, enabling advanced model accuracy metrics through various data mining methods. Distributed computing and algorithm optimization are integral components, ensuring efficient handling of large datasets. Data governance policies are crucial for managing data security protocols and ensuring data lineage tracking. Software development kits, model versioning, and anomaly detection systems facilitate seamless development, deployment, and monitoring of predictive modeling techniques, including machine learning algorithms, regression analysis, and statistical modeling. Real-time data streaming and parallelized algorithms enable real-time insights, while predictive modeling techniques and machine learning algorithms drive business intelligence and decision-making.

Cloud computing infrastructure, data visualization tools, high-performance computing, and database management systems support scalable data solutions and efficient data warehousing. ETL processes and data integration pipelines ensure data quality assessment and feature engineering techniques. Clustering techniques and natural language processing are essential for advanced data analysis. The market is witnessing significant growth, with adoption increasing by 18.7% in the past year, and industry experts anticipate a further expansion of 21.6% in the upcoming period. Companies across various sectors are recognizing the potential of data science platforms, leading to a surge in demand for scalable, secure, and efficient solutions.

API integration services and deep learning frameworks are gaining traction, offering advanced capabilities and seamless integration with existing systems. Data security protocols and model explainability methods are becoming increasingly important, ensuring transparency and trust in data-driven decision-making. The market is expected to continue unfolding, with ongoing advancements in technology and evolving business needs shaping its future trajectory.

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The On-premises segment was valued at USD 38.70 million in 2019 and showed

Geochemical data are frequently collected from mineral exploration drill-hole samples to more accurately define and characterise the geological units intersected by the drill hole. However, large multi-element data sets are slow and challenging to interpret without using some form of automated analysis, such as mathematical, statistical or machine learning techniques. Automated analysis techniques also have the advantage in that they are repeatable and can provide consistent results, even for very large data sets. In this paper, an automated litho-geochemical interpretation workflow is demonstrated, which includes data exploration and data preparation using appropriate compositional data-analysis techniques. Multiscale analysis using a modified wavelet tessellation has been applied to the data to provide coherent geological domains. Unsupervised machine learning (clustering) has been used to provide a first-pass classification. The results are compared with the detailed geologist’s logs. The comparison shows how the integration of automated analysis of geochemical data can be used to enhance traditional geological logging and demonstrates the identification of new geological units from the automated litho-geochemical logging that were not apparent from visual logging but are geochemically distinct. To reduce computational complexity and facilitate interpretation, a subset of geochemical elements is selected, and then a centred log-ratio transform is applied. The wavelet tessellation method is used to domain the drill holes into rock units at a range of scales. Several clustering methods were tested to identify distinct rock units in the samples and multiscale domains for classification. Results are compared with geologist’s logs to assess how geochemical data analysis can inform and improve traditional geology logs.

Case study: How does a bike-share navigate speedy success?

Scenario:

As a data analyst on Cyclistic's marketing team, our focus is on enhancing annual memberships to drive the company's success. We aim to analyze the differing usage patterns between casual riders and annual members to craft a marketing strategy aimed at converting casual riders. Our recommendations, supported by data insights and professional visualizations, await Cyclistic executives' approval to proceed.

About the company

In 2016, Cyclistic launched a bike-share program in Chicago, growing to 5,824 bikes and 692 stations. Initially, their marketing aimed at broad segments with flexible pricing plans attracting both casual riders (single-ride or full-day passes) and annual members. However, recognizing that annual members are more profitable, Cyclistic is shifting focus to convert casual riders into annual members. To achieve this, they plan to analyze historical bike trip data to understand the differences and preferences between the two user groups, aiming to tailor marketing strategies that encourage casual riders to purchase annual memberships.

Project Overview:

This capstone project is a culmination of the skills and knowledge acquired through the Google Professional Data Analytics Certification. It focuses on Track 1, which is centered around Cyclistic, a fictional bike-share company modeled to reflect real-world data analytics scenarios in the transportation and service industry.

Dataset Acknowledgment:

We are grateful to Motivate Inc. for providing the dataset that serves as the foundation of this capstone project. Their contribution has enabled us to apply practical data analytics techniques to a real-world dataset, mirroring the challenges and opportunities present in the bike-sharing sector.

Objective:

The primary goal of this project is to analyze the Cyclistic dataset to uncover actionable insights that could help the company optimize its operations, improve customer satisfaction, and increase its market share. Through comprehensive data exploration, cleaning, analysis, and visualization, we aim to identify patterns and trends that inform strategic business decisions.

Methodology:

Data Collection: Utilizing the dataset provided by Motivate Inc., which includes detailed information on bike usage, customer behavior, and operational metrics. Data Cleaning and Preparation: Ensuring the dataset is accurate, complete, and ready for analysis by addressing any inconsistencies, missing values, or anomalies. Data Analysis: Applying statistical methods and data analytics techniques to extract meaningful insights from the dataset.

Visualization and Reporting:

Creating intuitive and compelling visualizations to present the findings clearly and effectively, facilitating data-driven decision-making. Findings and Recommendations:

Conclusion:

The Cyclistic Capstone Project not only demonstrates the practical application of data analytics skills in a real-world scenario but also provides valuable insights that can drive strategic improvements for Cyclistic. Through this project, showcasing the power of data analytics in transforming data into actionable knowledge, underscoring the importance of data-driven decision-making in today's competitive business landscape.

Acknowledgments:

Special thanks to Motivate Inc. for their support and for providing the dataset that made this project possible. Their contribution is immensely appreciated and has significantly enhanced the learning experience.

STRATEGIES USED

Case Study Roadmap - ASK

●What is the problem you are trying to solve? ●How can your insights drive business decisions?

Key Tasks ● Identify the business task ● Consider key stakeholders

Deliverable ● A clear statement of the business task

Case Study Roadmap - PREPARE

● Where is your data located? ● Are there any problems with the data?

Key tasks ● Download data and store it appropriately. ● Identify how it’s organized.

Deliverable ● A description of all data sources used

Case Study Roadmap - PROCESS

● What tools are you choosing and why? ● What steps have you taken to ensure that your data is clean?

Key tasks ● Choose your tools. ● Document the cleaning process.

Deliverable ● Documentation of any cleaning or manipulation of data

Case Study Roadmap - ANALYZE

● Has your data been properly formaed? ● How will these insights help answer your business questions?

Key tasks ● Perform calculations ● Formatting

Deliverable ● A summary of analysis

Case Study Roadmap - SHARE

● Were you able to answer all questions of stakeholders? ● Can Data visualization help you share findings?

Key tasks ● Present your findings ● Create effective data viz.

Deliverable ● Supporting viz and key findings

**Case Study Roadmap - A...

The OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) surveys collected data on students’ performances in reading, mathematics and science, as well as contextual information on students’ background, home characteristics and school factors which could influence performance. This publication includes detailed information on how to analyse the PISA data, enabling researchers to both reproduce the initial results and to undertake further analyses. In addition to the inclusion of the necessary techniques, the manual also includes a detailed account of the PISA 2006 database and worked examples providing full syntax in SPSS.

This book is written for statisticians, data analysts, programmers, researchers, teachers, students, professionals, and general consumers on how to perform different types of statistical data analysis for research purposes using the R programming language. R is an open-source software and object-oriented programming language with a development environment (IDE) called RStudio for computing statistics and graphical displays through data manipulation, modelling, and calculation. R packages and supported libraries provides a wide range of functions for programming and analyzing of data. Unlike many of the existing statistical softwares, R has the added benefit of allowing the users to write more efficient codes by using command-line scripting and vectors. It has several built-in functions and libraries that are extensible and allows the users to define their own (customized) functions on how they expect the program to behave while handling the data, which can also be stored in the simple object system.For all intents and purposes, this book serves as both textbook and manual for R statistics particularly in academic research, data analytics, and computer programming targeted to help inform and guide the work of the R users or statisticians. It provides information about different types of statistical data analysis and methods, and the best scenarios for use of each case in R. It gives a hands-on step-by-step practical guide on how to identify and conduct the different parametric and non-parametric procedures. This includes a description of the different conditions or assumptions that are necessary for performing the various statistical methods or tests, and how to understand the results of the methods. The book also covers the different data formats and sources, and how to test for reliability and validity of the available datasets. Different research experiments, case scenarios and examples are explained in this book. It is the first book to provide a comprehensive description and step-by-step practical hands-on guide to carrying out the different types of statistical analysis in R particularly for research purposes with examples. Ranging from how to import and store datasets in R as Objects, how to code and call the methods or functions for manipulating the datasets or objects, factorization, and vectorization, to better reasoning, interpretation, and storage of the results for future use, and graphical visualizations and representations. Thus, congruence of Statistics and Computer programming for Research.

This paper describes the methodology used to define the baseline exploration suite of techniques (baseline), as well as the approach that was used to create the cost and time data set that populates the baseline. The resulting product, an online tool for measuring impact, and the aggregated cost and time data are available on the Open Energy Information website (OpenEI, http://en.openei.org) for public access. The Department of Energy's Geothermal Technology Office (GTO) provides RD&D funding for geothermal exploration technologies with the goal of lowering the risks and costs of geothermal development and exploration. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) developed this cost and time metric included collecting cost and time data for exploration techniques, creating a baseline suite of exploration techniques to which future exploration cost and time improvements can be compared, and developing an online tool for graphically showing potential project impacts (all available at http://en.openei.org/wiki/Gateway: Geothermal).

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) was tasked with developing a metric in 2012 to measure the impacts of RD&D funding on the cost and time required for geothermal exploration activities. The development of this cost and time metric included collecting cost and time data for exploration techniques, creating a baseline suite of exploration techniques to which future exploration cost and time improvements can be compared, and developing an online tool for graphically showing potential project impacts (all available at http://en.openei.org/wiki/Gateway: Geothermal). This paper describes the methodology used to define the baseline exploration suite of techniques (baseline), as well as the approach that was used to create the cost and time data set that populates the baseline. The resulting product, an online tool for measuring impact, and the aggregated cost and time data are available on the Open Energy Information website (OpenEI, http://en.openei.org) for public access.

Improving the accuracy of prediction on future values based on the past and current observations has been pursued by enhancing the prediction's methods, combining those methods or performing data pre-processing. In this paper, another approach is taken, namely by increasing the number of input in the dataset. This approach would be useful especially for a shorter time series data. By filling the in-between values in the time series, the number of training set can be increased, thus increasing the generalization capability of the predictor. The algorithm used to make prediction is Neural Network as it is widely used in literature for time series tasks. For comparison, Support Vector Regression is also employed. The dataset used in the experiment is the frequency of USPTO's patents and PubMed's scientific publications on the field of health, namely on Apnea, Arrhythmia, and Sleep Stages. Another time series data designated for NN3 Competition in the field of transportation is also used for benchmarking. The experimental result shows that the prediction performance can be significantly increased by filling in-between data in the time series. Furthermore, the use of detrend and deseasonalization which separates the data into trend, seasonal and stationary time series also improve the prediction performance both on original and filled dataset. The optimal number of increase on the dataset in this experiment is about five times of the length of original dataset.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Venkatesh

Released under Database: Open Database, Contents: Database Contents

Contents

Analysis of data measured on different scales is a relevant challenge. Biomedical studies often focus on high-throughput datasets of, e.g., quantitative measurements. However, the need for integration of other features possibly measured on different scales, e.g. clinical or cytogenetic factors, becomes increasingly important. The analysis results (e.g. a selection of relevant genes) are then visualized, while adding further information, like clinical factors, on top. However, a more integrative approach is desirable, where all available data are analyzed jointly, and where also in the visualization different data sources are combined in a more natural way. Here we specifically target integrative visualization and present a heatmap-style graphic display. To this end, we develop and explore methods for clustering mixed-type data, with special focus on clustering variables. Clustering of variables does not receive as much attention in the literature as does clustering of samples. We extend the variables clustering methodology by two new approaches, one based on the combination of different association measures and the other on distance correlation. With simulation studies we evaluate and compare different clustering strategies. Applying specific methods for mixed-type data proves to be comparable and in many cases beneficial as compared to standard approaches applied to corresponding quantitative or binarized data. Our two novel approaches for mixed-type variables show similar or better performance than the existing methods ClustOfVar and bias-corrected mutual information. Further, in contrast to ClustOfVar, our methods provide dissimilarity matrices, which is an advantage, especially for the purpose of visualization. Real data examples aim to give an impression of various kinds of potential applications for the integrative heatmap and other graphical displays based on dissimilarity matrices. We demonstrate that the presented integrative heatmap provides more information than common data displays about the relationship among variables and samples. The described clustering and visualization methods are implemented in our R package CluMix available from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/CluMix.

The data was collected from the famous cookery Youtube channels in India. The major focus was to collect the viewers' comments in Hinglish languages. The datasets are taken from top 2 Indian cooking channel named Nisha Madhulika channel and Kabita’s Kitchen channel.

Both the datasets comments are divided into seven categories:-

Label 1- Gratitude

Label 2- About the recipe

Label 3- About the video

Label 4- Praising

Label 5- Hybrid

Label 6- Undefined

Label 7- Suggestions and queries

All the labelling has been done manually.

Nisha Madhulika dataset:

Dataset characteristics: Multivariate

Number of instances: 4900

Area: Cooking

Attribute characteristics: Real

Number of attributes: 4

Date donated: March, 2019

Associate tasks: Classification

Missing values: Null

Kabita Kitchen dataset:

Dataset characteristics: Multivariate

Number of instances: 4900

Area: Cooking

Attribute characteristics: Real

Number of attributes: 4

Date donated: March, 2019

Associate tasks: Classification

Missing values: Null

There are two separate datasets file of each channel named as preprocessing and main file .

The files with preprocessing names are generated after doing the preprocessing and exploratory data analysis on both the datasets. This file includes:

• Id
• User
• Comment text
• Labels

• Count of stop-words
• Uppercase words
• Hashtags
• Word count
• Char count
• Average words
• Numeric

The main file includes:

• Id
• user
• comment text
• Labels

Abstract During analysis of scientific research data, it is customary to encounter anomalous values or missing data. Anomalous values can be the result of errors of recording, typing, measurement by instruments, or may be true outliers. This review discusses concepts, examples and methods for identifying and dealing with such contingencies. In the case of missing data, techniques for imputation of the values are discussed in, order to avoid exclusion of the research subject, if it is not possible to retrieve information from registration forms or to re-address the participant.