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Practical Data Wrangling

Around 80% of time in data analysis is spent on cleaning and preparing data for analysis. Python and R are considered a popular choice of tool for data analysis, and have packages which can be best used to manipulate different kinds of data, as per the requirement. This book will show you the best approaches for particular problems in real world cases.

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Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Completion Time

6h48m

Language

English

About Book

Who Is This Book For?

If you are a data scientist, data analyst, or a statistician who wants to learn how to wrangle your data for analysis in the best possible manner, this book is for you. As this book covers both R and Python, some understanding of them will be beneficial.

Book content

chapters 6h48m total length

Programming with Data

An Introduction to Programming in Python

: Reading, Writing and Modifying Data in Python I

Reading, Writing and Modifying Data in Python II

Text Data and Regular expressions

Cleaning Numerical Data: An Introduction To R and Rstudio

Data Munging in R using Dplyr

Getting data from the web

Working with really large datasets

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