Correlation Analysis 101 in Python

How to read and run correlation plots in Python Pandas

Olga Berezovsky
Data Analysis Journal
5 min readJul 24, 2021

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Do you ever receive questions like:

  • Does correlation imply causation?
  • How do you prove if features X and Y are correlated?

After this helpful guide, you will know the best way to answer those types of questions. In this article, I’ll focus on positive and negative correlation analysis and specifically cover:

  1. Practical use cases for correlation analysis.

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