Transforming Skewed Data

A Survey of Friendly Functions

Corey Wade
Towards Data Science
7 min readAug 21, 2018

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Note: The following code is written in Python and excerpted from various Jupyter Notebook. Inline comments have been eliminated to make the article more readable.

Skewed data is cumbersome and common. It’s often desirable to transform skewed data and to convert it into values between 0 and 1.

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Teaches Python, Data Science, Machine Learning & AI to teens at Berkeley Coding Academy. Author of The Python Workshop & Hands-on Gradient Boosting with XGBoost