Don’t Take Shortcuts When Handling Missing Values

How to ensure that missing data is dealt with correctly

Aashish Nair
Towards Data Science
7 min readNov 8, 2022

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Missing values are a dilemma in many datasets, but many users are eager to allocate less time to deal with them so that they can focus more on modeling.

I write this after recently running into many portfolio projects that treat missing data as an afterthought…

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