Data analysis using R

Last Updated : 04 Sep, 2024

Data Analysis is a subset of data analytics, it is a process where the objective has to be made clear, collect the relevant data, preprocess the data, perform analysis(understand the data, explore insights), and then visualize it. The last step visualization is important to make people understand what's happening in the firm.

Steps involved in data analysis:

The process of data analysis would include all these steps for the given problem statement. Example- Analyze the products that are being rapidly sold out and details of frequent customers of a retail shop.

Defining the problem statement - Understand the goal, and what is needed to be done. In this case, our problem statement is - "The product is mostly sold out and list of customers who often visit the store."
Collection of data - Not all the company's data is necessary, understand the relevant data according to the problem. Here the required columns are product ID, customer ID, and date visited.
Preprocessing - Cleaning the data is mandatory to put it in a structured format before performing analysis.

Removing outliers( noisy data).
Removing null or irrelevant values in the columns. (Change null values to mean value of that column.)
If there is any missing data, either ignore the tuple or fill it with a mean value of the column.

Data Analysis using the Titanic dataset

You can download the titanic dataset (it contains data from real passengers of the titanic)from here. Save the dataset in the current working directory, now we will start analysis (getting to know our data).

titanic=read.csv("train.csv") head(titanic)

Output:

  PassengerId Survived Pclass                                         Name    Sex
1         892        0      3                             Kelly, Mr. James   male
2         893        1      3             Wilkes, Mrs. James (Ellen Needs) female
3         894        0      2                    Myles, Mr. Thomas Francis   male
4         895        0      3                             Wirz, Mr. Albert   male
5         896        1      3 Hirvonen, Mrs. Alexander (Helga E Lindqvist) female
6         897        0      3                   Svensson, Mr. Johan Cervin   male
   Age SibSp Parch  Ticket    Fare Cabin Embarked
1 34.5     0     0  330911  7.8292              Q
2 47.0     1     0  363272  7.0000              S
3 62.0     0     0  240276  9.6875              Q
4 27.0     0     0  315154  8.6625              S
5 22.0     1     1 3101298 12.2875              S
6 14.0     0     0    7538  9.2250              S

Our dataset contains all the columns like name, age, gender of the passenger and class they have traveled in, whether they have survived or not, etc. To understand the class(data type) of each column sapply() method can be used.

sapply(train, class)

Output:

PassengerId    Survived      Pclass        Name         Sex         Age 
  "integer"   "integer"   "integer" "character" "character"   "numeric" 
      SibSp       Parch      Ticket        Fare       Cabin    Embarked 
  "integer"   "integer" "character"   "numeric" "character" "character"

We can categorize the value "survived" into "dead" to 0 and "alive" to 1 using factor() function.

train$Survived=as.factor(train$Survived) train$Sex=as.factor(train$Sex) sapply(train, class)

Output:

PassengerId    Survived      Pclass        Name         Sex         Age 
  "integer"    "factor"   "integer" "character"    "factor"   "numeric" 
      SibSp       Parch      Ticket        Fare       Cabin    Embarked 
  "integer"   "integer" "character"   "numeric" "character" "character"

We analyze data using a summary of all the columns, their values, and data types. summary() can be used for this purpose.

summary(train)

Output:

  PassengerId     Survived     Pclass          Name               Sex     
 Min.   : 892.0   0:266    Min.   :1.000   Length:418         female:152  
 1st Qu.: 996.2   1:152    1st Qu.:1.000   Class :character   male  :266  
 Median :1100.5            Median :3.000   Mode  :character               
 Mean   :1100.5            Mean   :2.266                                  
 3rd Qu.:1204.8            3rd Qu.:3.000                                  
 Max.   :1309.0            Max.   :3.000                                  
                                                                          
      Age            SibSp            Parch           Ticket         
 Min.   : 0.17   Min.   :0.0000   Min.   :0.0000   Length:418        
 1st Qu.:21.00   1st Qu.:0.0000   1st Qu.:0.0000   Class :character  
 Median :27.00   Median :0.0000   Median :0.0000   Mode  :character  
 Mean   :30.27   Mean   :0.4474   Mean   :0.3923                     
 3rd Qu.:39.00   3rd Qu.:1.0000   3rd Qu.:0.0000                     
 Max.   :76.00   Max.   :8.0000   Max.   :9.0000                     
 NA's   :86                                                          
      Fare            Cabin             Embarked        
 Min.   :  0.000   Length:418         Length:418        
 1st Qu.:  7.896   Class :character   Class :character  
 Median : 14.454   Mode  :character   Mode  :character  
 Mean   : 35.627                                        
 3rd Qu.: 31.500                                        
 Max.   :512.329                                        
 NA's   :1

From the above summary we can extract below observations:

Total passengers: 891
The number of total people who survived: 342
Number of total people dead: 549
Number of males in the titanic: 577
Number of females in the titanic: 314
Maximum age among all people in titanic: 80
Median age: 28

Preprocessing of the data is important before analysis, so null values have to be checked and removed.

sum(is.na(train))

Output:

dropnull_train=train[rowSums(is.na(train))<=0,]

dropnull_train contains only 631 rows because (total rows in dataset (808) - null value rows (177) = remaining rows (631) )
Now we will divide survived and dead people into a separate list from 631 rows.

survivedlist=dropnull_train[dropnull_train$Survived == 1,] notsurvivedlist=dropnull_train[dropnull_train$Survived == 0,]

Now we can visualize the number of males and females dead and survived using bar plots, histograms, and piecharts.

mytable <- table(titanic$Survived) lbls <- paste(names(mytable), "\n", mytable, sep="") pie(mytable,     labels = lbls,     main="Pie Chart of Survived column data\n (with sample sizes)")

Output:

From the above pie chart, we can certainly say that there is a data imbalance in the target/Survived column.

hist(survivedlist$Age, xlab="gender", ylab="frequency")

Output:

Now let's draw a bar plot to visualize the number of males and females who were there on the titanic ship.

barplot(table(notsurvivedlist$Sex), xlab="gender", ylab="frequency")

Output:

From the barplot above we can analyze that there are nearly 350 males, and 50 females those are not survived in titanic.

temp<-density(table(titanic$Fare)) plot(temp, type="n",      main="Fare charged from Passengers") polygon(temp, col="lightgray",         border="gray")

Output:

Here we can observe that there are some passengers who are charged extremely high. So, these values can affect our analysis as they are outliers. Let's confirm their presence using a boxplot.

boxplot(titanic$Fare, main="Fare charged from passengers")

Output:

Certainly, there are some extreme outliers present in this dataset.

Performing Clustering

Import required R libraries for data manipulation, clustering, and visualization.
Read the Titanic dataset from the specified file path.
Keep only the relevant columns for analysis.
Transform categorical variables into numeric format using factor() function.
Impute missing values for Age with the mean value and ensure there are no remaining missing values. Remove any rows with remaining missing values if necessary.
Scale the data to ensure that all features contribute equally to clustering.
Verify that the standardized data does not contain NaN or Inf values, which could affect clustering.
Use the Elbow Method to find the optimal number of clusters; if this method fails, manually try different values.
Run the K-means algorithm with the chosen number of clusters (e.g., k = 3) and a set seed for reproducibility.
Ensure that the K-means clustering results have been successfully created.
Append the cluster assignments to the original dataset for further analysis.
Create a cluster plot to visualize the results of the K-means clustering.

# Load necessary libraries library(tidyverse) library(cluster) library(factoextra)  # Load the dataset titanic_data <- read.csv("C:/Users/Tonmoy/Downloads/titanic.csv")  # Data preprocessing # Remove unnecessary columns titanic_data <- titanic_data %>%   select(PassengerId, Survived, Pclass, Sex, Age, SibSp, Parch, Fare)  # Convert categorical variables to numeric titanic_data$Sex <- as.numeric(factor(titanic_data$Sex))  # Handle missing values # Impute missing values for Age titanic_data$Age[is.na(titanic_data$Age)] <- mean(titanic_data$Age, na.rm = TRUE)  # Ensure there are no remaining missing values missing_values <- sum(is.na(titanic_data)) print(paste("Remaining missing values after imputation:", missing_values))  # If missing values still exist, handle them (e.g., impute with mean or remove rows/columns) if (missing_values > 0) {   # Remove rows with remaining missing values (if any)   titanic_data <- na.omit(titanic_data) }  # Standardize the data titanic_scaled <- scale(titanic_data)  # Check for NaNs or Infs in the scaled data if (any(is.nan(titanic_scaled)) || any(is.infinite(titanic_scaled))) {   stop("Scaled data contains NaN or Inf values") }  # Double-check the data for any anomalies print(summary(titanic_scaled))  # Determine the optimal number of clusters # If Elbow method still fails, manually try different k values fviz_nbclust(titanic_scaled, kmeans, method = "wss") + labs(subtitle = "Elbow Method")  # Perform K-means clustering with the optimal number of clusters (e.g., k = 3) set.seed(123) kmeans_result <- kmeans(titanic_scaled, centers = 3, nstart = 25)  # Check if kmeans_result was created successfully if (!exists("kmeans_result")) {   stop("K-means clustering failed to create kmeans_result") }  # Add cluster assignments to the original dataset titanic_data$Cluster <- kmeans_result$cluster  # Visualize the clustering fviz_cluster(kmeans_result, data = titanic_scaled, geom = "point", stand = FALSE)

Output:

Screenshot-2024-07-21-202033 — Visualize the cluster

Predictive Model

Load a collection of R packages for data manipulation and visualization. It includes dplyr and ggplot2, among others.
The caret package for training and evaluating machine learning models. It provides functions for data splitting (createDataPartition), model training (train), and performance evaluation (confusionMatrix).
Loads the dataset from a specified file path into a data frame.
Chooses relevant columns from the dataset to use for modeling. Here, it selects columns related to survival status and passenger features.
Converts the Sex variable into a factor, which is then converted to numeric values. This is necessary because logistic regression models require numerical input.
Computes the mean age (excluding missing values) to impute the missing values in the Age column.
Counts remaining missing values.
Removes rows with any remaining missing values.
Converts the Survived variable to a factor. This is essential for classification tasks in logistic regression.
Ensures reproducibility of the data split.
Creates an 80-20 split of the data into training and testing sets.
Trains a logistic regression model (method = "glm") with a binomial family for binary classification.
Generates predictions on the test set using the trained model.
Ensures that the factor levels of titanic_test$Survived match those of predictions.
Computes and prints the confusion matrix to evaluate model performance.

# Load necessary libraries library(tidyverse) library(caret)  # For createDataPartition, train, and confusionMatrix  # Load the dataset titanic_data <- read.csv("C:/Users/Tonmoy/Downloads/titanic.csv")  # Data preprocessing titanic_data <- titanic_data %>%   select(Survived, Pclass, Sex, Age, SibSp, Parch, Fare)  # Convert categorical variables to numeric titanic_data$Sex <- as.numeric(factor(titanic_data$Sex))  # Handle missing values by imputing with mean for Age titanic_data$Age[is.na(titanic_data$Age)] <- mean(titanic_data$Age, na.rm = TRUE)  # Check for remaining missing values missing_values <- sum(is.na(titanic_data)) print(paste("Remaining missing values after imputation:", missing_values))  # Remove rows with remaining missing values (if any) if (missing_values > 0) {   titanic_data <- na.omit(titanic_data) }  # Convert Survived to factor for classification titanic_data$Survived <- as.factor(titanic_data$Survived)  # Split the data into training and testing sets set.seed(123) trainIndex <- createDataPartition(titanic_data$Survived, p = .8, list = FALSE) titanic_train <- titanic_data[trainIndex, ] titanic_test  <- titanic_data[-trainIndex, ]  # Train a logistic regression model model <- train(Survived ~ ., data = titanic_train, method = "glm", family = binomial)   # Make predictions on the test set predictions <- predict(model, titanic_test)  # Ensure both factors have the same levels levels(titanic_test$Survived) <- levels(predictions)  # Evaluate the model conf_matrix <- confusionMatrix(predictions, titanic_test$Survived) print(conf_matrix)

Output:

Confusion Matrix and Statistics

          Reference
Prediction  0  1
         0 53  0
         1  0 30
                                     
               Accuracy : 1          
                 95% CI : (0.9565, 1)
    No Information Rate : 0.6386     
    P-Value [Acc > NIR] : < 2.2e-16  
                                     
                  Kappa : 1          
                                     
 Mcnemar's Test P-Value : NA         
                                     
            Sensitivity : 1.0000     
            Specificity : 1.0000     
         Pos Pred Value : 1.0000     
         Neg Pred Value : 1.0000     
             Prevalence : 0.6386     
         Detection Rate : 0.6386     
   Detection Prevalence : 0.6386     
      Balanced Accuracy : 1.0000     
                                     
       'Positive' Class : 0

Explanation of the output -

Accuracy: 100% - The model predicts all test cases correctly.
Sensitivity: 100% - The model identifies all positive cases correctly.
Specificity: 100% - The model identifies all negative cases correctly.
Kappa: 1 - A measure of agreement between the predicted and observed classifications.
The code trains a logistic regression model to predict survival based on various features of the Titanic dataset.
The model shows perfect accuracy, but this might be due to issues in the data or its split. Further validation is recommended.

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Data Analysis using the Titanic dataset

Performing Clustering

Predictive Model

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