Python · Wine dataset · Data mining
Wine dataset analysis: preparation, EDA, PCA and classification
This post turns the original notebook into a practical data-analysis workflow: load the Wine dataset, inspect variables, scale the data, reduce dimensionality and validate a classifier with a train/test split.
What problem does this analysis solve?
The Wine dataset contains chemical measurements from different wine cultivars. The goal is to understand which variables separate the classes and whether a supervised model can classify the origin of a wine from those measurements.
1. Load and validate
Check rows, columns, feature names, target classes and missing values before modeling.
2. Explore distributions
Use descriptive statistics and plots to detect scale differences, outliers and class separation.
3. Reduce dimensions
Compare PCA and t-SNE as complementary views: PCA explains variance, t-SNE helps inspect local structure.
4. Train and evaluate
Split train/test data and use metrics such as accuracy and confusion matrix to avoid judging the model by intuition.
Main takeaway
The important lesson is not only the final classifier. The real value is the complete sequence: understand the data, transform it when needed, visualize it from several angles and only then train a model.