Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA) Report – README

High‑level guide for someone new to Quarto and this project.

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🚀 What is this?

• This is a Quarto project configured as a book (multi‑chapter report). A Quarto project is simply a folder with a _quarto.yml file, which Quarto uses to manage and render multiple .qmd files together :contentReference[oaicite:0]{index=0}.
• The _quarto.yml file sets project.type: book and lists the chapters in order under book.chapters, such as

  book:
    chapters:
      - index.qmd
      - 01-setup.qmd
      - 02-univariate.qmd
      - 03-correlations.qmd
  ``` :contentReference[oaicite:1]{index=1}.
  

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🛠️ Prerequisites

• Install Quarto CLI from quarto.org. Make sure the version is ≥ 1.0. You can verify with:

  quarto --version

Ensure Python 3.9+, Jupyter, and packages like numpy, pandas, matplotlib, seaborn are installed. Use:

pip install -r requirements.txt
# or
conda env create -f environment.yml

📁 Project Structure

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├── _quarto.yml          # Quarto project config (book type + format settings)
├── README.md            # You are here
├── index.qmd            # Preface / Overview
├── 01-setup.qmd         # Data loading and cleaning
├── 02-univariate.qmd    # Single-variable stats & plots
├── 03-correlations.qmd  # Pairwise and regression analyses
├── data/                # Data files (.csv, .tsv, Parquet, etc.)
├── src/                 # Python modules (e.g. src/eda.py)
├── tests/               # Pytest tests for code in src/
└── environment.yml      # Optional conda env specification

• The folder acts as a Quarto project because of the _quarto.yml config file
• Every .qmd chapter renders via the book engine, producing both HTML and PDF according to the formats defined in _quarto.yml.

📖 How to Render the Book

• To render the book, run:

quarto render

• This generates HTML and PDF files in the _site folder (default output location).
• To view the HTML book, open _site/index.html in a web browser.
• To render a specific chapter, use:

quarto render 01-setup.qmd

• To render all chapters, simply run quarto render without specifying a chapter.
• To render to a specific format, use:

quarto render --to html

• or

quarto render --to pdf