The data set HMEQ reports characteristics and delinquency information for $5,960$ home equity loans. A home equity loan is a loan where the obligor uses the equity of his or her home as the underlying collateral. The data set has the following characteristics: $1\mathrm{.}1$ Carefully pre$-$process the data set by considering the following activities $(30$ marks$)$:

$$ exploratory data analysis

$$ missing value handling $($if any$)$

$$ outlier detection and treatment $($if any$)$

$$ categorisation of the continuous variables $($if deemed useful$)$

$$ Weights of Evidence coding $($note that some additional coarse classification might be needed$).$