Data rarely comes in usable form. Data wrangling and exploratory data analysis are the difference between a good data science model and garbage in, garbage out.

Samuel Leinhardt, Stanley S. Wasserman, Exploratory Data Analysis: An Introduction to Selected Methods, Sociological Methodology, Vol. 10 (1979), pp. 311-365 ...

An exploratory data analysis has been performed on the dataset to explore the effects of different factors like holidays, fuel price, and temperature on Walmart’s weekly sales.

Multivariate Exploratory Analysis of Ordinal Data in Ecology: Pitfalls, Problems and Solutions, Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 16, No. 5 (Oct., 2005), pp. 497-510 ...