🧠Welcome to the Breast Cancer Analysis project! This project focuses on analyzing breast cancer data to aid in early detection and treatment planning. The primary objective is to develop models that can predict whether a tumor is benign or malignant based on various features.
- Data preprocessing and cleaning🧹
- Exploratory data analysis (EDA) 🔍
- Visualization of data distributions and relationships📊
- Machine learning model training and evaluation (future implementation)🤖
- Data Import and Initial Inspection:
- 📝Learned how to load and inspect data using Pandas, which is essential for understanding the structure and initial quality of the dataset.
⚠️ Gained experience in handling warnings and suppressing unnecessary ones for cleaner output.
- Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA):
- 🖨️Practiced using Pandas to print and examine the first few rows and columns of the dataset, providing a quick overview of the data.
- ✂️Identified and dropped irrelevant columns to streamline the dataset, focusing on essential features for analysis.
- Data Visualization:
- 🎨Utilized Seaborn and Matplotlib for visualizing data distributions and relationships, which is crucial for uncovering patterns and insights.
- 📈Created count plots to visualize the distribution of benign and malignant tumors, aiding in understanding the dataset's balance.
- 🧬Generated violin and box plots to compare feature distributions between diagnosis categories, revealing differences in feature distributions.
- Data Standardization:
- ⚖️Learned the importance of standardizing data for consistent scale, which is particularly important for machine learning algorithms.
- 📏Practiced calculating and applying standardization, followed by visualizing the standardized data to ensure correctness.
- Advanced Visualization Techniques:
- 🔍Applied joint plots and swarm plots to explore relationships between pairs of features, gaining deeper insights into feature interactions.
- 🗺️Used heatmaps to visualize pair-wise correlations, helping to identify highly correlated features that could impact model performance.
- Insight Generation:
- 🧠Throughout the process, gained the ability to generate and interpret various types of plots, enhancing the understanding of data characteristics.
- 📢Developed skills in using visualizations to communicate findings effectively, an essential aspect of data analysis and reporting.
- Clone the repository:
https://github.com/SanjanaBankar/Breast_Cancer_Analysis.git