{"id":41543,"date":"2026-06-25T16:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/as-a-data-analysis-student-one-thing-surprised-me\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:27:12","slug":"as-a-data-analysis-student-one-thing-surprised-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/as-a-data-analysis-student-one-thing-surprised-me\/","title":{"rendered":"As A Data Analysis Student, One Thing Surprised Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- SC_OFF --><\/p>\n<div class=\"md\">\n<p>Most of the work isn&#8217;t building charts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s preparing the data before the analysis even starts.<\/p>\n<p>Cleaning files.<br \/> Fixing formats.<br \/> Validating data.<br \/> Checking structures.<br \/> Transforming datasets.<\/p>\n<p>The better your preparation process is, the easier the actual analysis becomes.<\/p>\n<p>What part of data preparation do you find most annoying?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Funny_Paint_5622\"> \/u\/Funny_Paint_5622 <\/a> <br \/> <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1ufb32q\/as_a_data_analysis_student_one_thing_surprised_me\/\">[link]<\/a><\/span>   <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/datasets\/comments\/1ufb32q\/as_a_data_analysis_student_one_thing_surprised_me\/\">[comments]<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-right'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-41543 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='41543' data-nonce='415be27c86' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-41543 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-41543 status align-right'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the work isn&#8217;t building charts. It&#8217;s preparing the data before the analysis even starts. Cleaning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-datatards","wpcat-85-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graviton.at\/letterswaplibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}