Practical Python Data Wrangling and Data Quality
Getting Started with Reading, Cleaning, and Analyzing Data
Seiten
2021
O'Reilly Media (Verlag)
978-1-4920-9150-9 (ISBN)
O'Reilly Media (Verlag)
978-1-4920-9150-9 (ISBN)
The world around us is full of data that holds unique insights and valuable stories, and this book will help you uncover them. Whether you already work with data or want to learn more about its possibilities, the examples and techniques in this practical book will help you more easily clean, evaluate, and analyze data so that you can generate meaningful insights and compelling visualizations.
Complementing foundational concepts with expert advice, author Susan E. McGregor provides the resources you need to extract, evaluate, and analyze a wide variety of data sources and formats, along with the tools to communicate your findings effectively. This book delivers a methodical, jargon-free way for data practitioners at any level, from true novices to seasoned professionals, to harness the power of data.
Use Python 3.8+ to read, write, and transform data from a variety of sources
Understand and use programming basics in Python to wrangle data at scale
Organize, document, and structure your code using best practices
Collect data from structured data files, web pages, and APIs
Perform basic statistical analyses to make meaning from datasets
Visualize and present data in clear and compelling ways
Complementing foundational concepts with expert advice, author Susan E. McGregor provides the resources you need to extract, evaluate, and analyze a wide variety of data sources and formats, along with the tools to communicate your findings effectively. This book delivers a methodical, jargon-free way for data practitioners at any level, from true novices to seasoned professionals, to harness the power of data.
Use Python 3.8+ to read, write, and transform data from a variety of sources
Understand and use programming basics in Python to wrangle data at scale
Organize, document, and structure your code using best practices
Collect data from structured data files, web pages, and APIs
Perform basic statistical analyses to make meaning from datasets
Visualize and present data in clear and compelling ways
Susan McGregor is the Assistant Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, and has been teaching journalists and other non-programmers to code for more than a decade. With a background in computer science, journalism and information visualization, McGregor loves solving problems that help people achieve greater agency. Following several years as the Senior Programmer of the Online News Graphics team at The Wall Street Journal, McGregor spent nearly a decade at Columbia University, where she taught classes on everything from introductory data journalism to advanced algorithmic investigation and analysis.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.12.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Sebastopol |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 178 x 233 mm |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Datenbanken ► Data Warehouse / Data Mining |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4920-9150-2 / 1492091502 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4920-9150-9 / 9781492091509 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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