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Sachin Sherki
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Why Data Cleaning Is the Most Important Step in Data Analysis

Before jumping into charts, models, or predictions, there’s one step that decides everything — data cleaning.

Raw data is messy.
It has missing values, duplicates, wrong formats, and hidden errors.

If you skip cleaning:

Your analysis becomes misleading

Your insights become unreliable

Your model learns the wrong patterns

Data cleaning helps you:
✔ Understand what your data truly represents
✔ Remove noise and inconsistencies
✔ Build trust in your analysis and decisions

In simple words:
Good data → Good insights
Bad data → Wrong conclusions

That’s why experienced data analysts spend most of their time cleaning before analyzing.

Clean first. Analyze later. Always.
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