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  This dataset was intentionally designed to be messy, mimicking real-world data entry errors. I followed a chronological process to clean it:
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  1. **Fixing Mixed Data Types:** I identified columns such as Age and Annual Income that were incorrectly stored as strings (object) due to special characters like underscores (_). I removed these and converted the columns to numeric values.
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- 2. **Handling Placeholders:** I replaced categorical "placeholders" like "_______" or "_" with the label **Unknown**, allowing me to keep the data rows without making false assumptions.
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  3. **Outlier Detection & Capping Strategy:** I discovered extreme outliers, such as an age of 8,000 or interest rates over 5,000%.
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  **Why I chose Capping with the Median:**
 
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  This dataset was intentionally designed to be messy, mimicking real-world data entry errors. I followed a chronological process to clean it:
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  1. **Fixing Mixed Data Types:** I identified columns such as Age and Annual Income that were incorrectly stored as strings (object) due to special characters like underscores (_). I removed these and converted the columns to numeric values.
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+ 2. **Handling Placeholders:** I replaced categorical "placeholders" like "_______" or " _ " with the label **Unknown**, allowing me to keep the data rows without making false assumptions.
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  3. **Outlier Detection & Capping Strategy:** I discovered extreme outliers, such as an age of 8,000 or interest rates over 5,000%.
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  **Why I chose Capping with the Median:**