The complete beginner's guide to data cleaning and preprocessing

Data preprocessing is the first (and arguably most important) step toward building a working machine learning model. If your data hasn't been cleaned and preprocessed, your model does not work. Data preprocessing is generally thought of as the boring part. But it's the difference between being prepared and being completely unprepared. You might not like the preparation part, but tightening down the details in advance can save you from one nightmare of a trip.