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Python Data Cleaning Cookbook

Name: Python Data Cleaning Cookbook
Author: Michael Walker
ISBN: 9781800565661

by Michael Walker

December 2020

Beginner to intermediate

436 pages

8h 23m

English

Packt Publishing

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Preface
Who this book is forWhat this book coversTo get the most out of this bookDownload the example code filesDownload the color imagesConventions usedSectionsGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…See alsoGet in touchReviews
Chapter 1: Anticipating Data Cleaning Issues when Importing Tabular Data into pandas
Technical requirementsImporting CSV filesGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...There's more...See alsoImporting Excel filesGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…See alsoImporting data from SQL databasesGetting readyHow to do it...How it works…There's more…See alsoImporting SPSS, Stata, and SAS dataGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more…See alsoImporting R dataGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…See alsoPersisting tabular dataGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...There's more...
Chapter 2: Anticipating Data Cleaning Issues when Importing HTML and JSON into pandas
Technical requirementsImporting simple JSON dataGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…Importing more complicated JSON data from an APIGetting readyHow to do it...How it works…There's more…See alsoImporting data from web pagesGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…Persisting JSON dataGetting readyHow to do it...How it works…There's more…
Chapter 3: Taking the Measure of Your Data
Technical requirements Getting a first look at your dataGetting ready…How to do it...How it works…There's more...See alsoSelecting and organizing columnsGetting ready…How to do it…How it works…There's more…See alsoSelecting rowsGetting ready...How to do it...How it works…There's more…See alsoGenerating frequencies for categorical variablesGetting ready…How to do it…How it works…There's more…Generating summary statistics for continuous variablesGetting ready…How to do it…How it works…See also
Chapter 4: Identifying Missing Values and Outliers in Subsets of Data
Technical requirementsFinding missing valuesGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...See alsoIdentifying outliers with one variableGetting readyHow to do it...How it works…There's more…See alsoIdentifying outliers and unexpected values in bivariate relationshipsGetting readyHow to do it...How it works…There's more…See alsoUsing subsetting to examine logical inconsistencies in variable relationshipsGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…See alsoUsing linear regression to identify data points with significant influenceGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...There's more…Using k-nearest neighbor to find outliersGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...There's more...See alsoUsing Isolation Forest to find anomaliesGetting readyHow to do it...How it works…There's more…See also
Chapter 5: Using Visualizations for the Identification of Unexpected Values
Technical requirements Using histograms to examine the distribution of continuous variablesGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more...Using boxplots to identify outliers for continuous variablesGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...There's more...See alsoUsing grouped boxplots to uncover unexpected values in a particular groupGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more…See alsoExamining both the distribution shape and outliers with violin plotsGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…See alsoUsing scatter plots to view bivariate relationshipsGetting readyHow to do it...How it works…There's more...See alsoUsing line plots to examine trends in continuous variablesGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...There's more…See alsoGenerating a heat map based on a correlation matrixGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…See also
Chapter 6: Cleaning and Exploring Data with Series Operations
Technical requirementsGetting values from a pandas seriesGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...Showing summary statistics for a pandas seriesGetting readyHow to do it...How it works…There's more…See alsoChanging series valuesGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…See alsoChanging series values conditionallyGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…See alsoEvaluating and cleaning string series dataGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more…Working with datesGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…See alsoIdentifying and cleaning missing dataGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more...See alsoMissing value imputation with K-nearest neighborGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more...See also
Chapter 7: Fixing Messy Data when Aggregating
Technical requirementsLooping through data with itertuples (an anti-pattern)Getting readyHow to do it…How it works...There's more...Calculating summaries by group with NumPy arraysGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…See alsoUsing groupby to organize data by groupsGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...There's more...Using more complicated aggregation functions with groupbyGetting readyHow to do it…How it works…There's more…See alsoUsing user-defined functions and apply with groupbyGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...There's more...See alsoUsing groupby to change the unit of analysis of a DataFrameGetting readyHow to do it...How it works…
Chapter 8: Addressing Data Issues When Combining DataFrames
Technical requirementsCombining DataFrames verticallyGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...See alsoDoing one-to-one mergesGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...Using multiple merge-by columnsGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...Doing one-to-many mergesGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...There's more…See alsoDoing many-to-many mergesGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...Developing a merge routineGetting readyHow to do it…How it works...See also

Chapter 9: Tidying and Reshaping Data
Technical requirementsRemoving duplicated rowsGetting ready...How to do it…How it works...There's more...See also...Fixing many-to-many relationshipsGetting ready...How to do it…How it works...There's more...See also...Using stack and melt to reshape data from wide to long formatGetting ready...How to do it…How it works...Melting multiple groups of columnsGetting ready...How to do it…How it works...There's more...Using unstack and pivot to reshape data from long to wideGetting ready...How to do it…How it works...
Chapter 10: User-Defined Functions and Classes to Automate Data Cleaning
Technical requirements Functions for getting a first look at our dataGetting ready...How to do it...How it works...There's more...Functions for displaying summary statistics and frequenciesGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...See also...Functions for identifying outliers and unexpected valuesGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...See alsoFunctions for aggregating or combining dataGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...See alsoClasses that contain the logic for updating series valuesGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...See alsoClasses that handle non-tabular data structuresGetting readyHow to do it...How it works...There's more...
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Overview

'Python Data Cleaning Cookbook' is your go-to resource for mastering data cleaning using modern Python tools and techniques. The book offers practical solutions to detect and address issues in messy data, enabling you to shape it into a form ideal for your analytical needs. Through a recipe-based approach, you'll learn actionable methods to clean, wrangle, and validate your datasets.

What this Book will help me do

Learn to import and analyze data from diverse sources using Python.
Master filtering, summarizing, and selecting data to extract meaningful insights.
Handle common messy data issues such as missing values, duplicate entries, and date formatting.
Utilize visualizations for effective exploratory data analysis and issue detection.
Automate data cleaning processes with custom functions and reusable classes, boosting productivity.

Author(s)

Michael Walker combines his extensive experience as a data analyst and his passion for programming with Python to deliver efficient data cleaning techniques. With years of hands-on experience in working with complex datasets, Michael authored this book to share practical methods with researchers and analysts. His approachable writing style ensures that even challenging concepts are clearly rendered for actionable understanding.

Who is it for?

This book suits data analysts, researchers, and programmers dealing with messy datasets who aspire to elevate their data cleaning efficiency. If you have basic familiarity with Python and seek to make your datasets analysis-ready, this book provides actionable insights and practical approaches tailored for you. Discover tools and recipes to optimize your data wrangling workflows for high-quality outcomes.

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