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The Data Wrangling Workshop - Second Edition
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The Data Wrangling Workshop - Second Edition

by Brian Lipp, Shubhadeep Roychowdhury, Dr. Tirthajyoti Sarkar, John Wesley Doyle, Harshil Jain, Robert Thas John, Akshay Khare, Nagendra Nagaraj, Samik Sen, Dr. Vlad Sebastian Ionescu
July 2020
Beginner to intermediate
576 pages
9h 12m
English
Packt Publishing

Overview

The Data Wrangling Workshop is your beginner's guide to the essential techniques and practices of data manipulation using Python. Throughout the book, you will progressively build your skills, learning key concepts such as extracting, cleaning, and transforming data into actionable insights. By the end, you'll be confident in handling various data wrangling tasks efficiently.

What this Book will help me do

  • Understand and apply the fundamentals of data wrangling using Python.
  • Combine and aggregate data from diverse sources like web data, SQL databases, and spreadsheets.
  • Use descriptive statistics and plotting to examine dataset properties.
  • Handle missing or incorrect data effectively to maintain data quality.
  • Gain hands-on experience with Python's powerful data science libraries like Pandas, NumPy, and Matplotlib.

Author(s)

Brian Lipp, None Roychowdhury, and Dr. Tirthajyoti Sarkar are experienced educators and professionals in the fields of data science and engineering. Their collective expertise spans years of teaching and working with data technologies. They aim to make data wrangling accessible and comprehensible, focusing on practical examples to equip learners with real-world skills.

Who is it for?

The Data Wrangling Workshop is ideal for developers, data analysts, and business analysts aiming to become data scientists or analytics experts. If you're just getting started with Python, you will find this book guiding you step-by-step. A basic understanding of Python programming, as well as relational databases and SQL, is recommended for smooth learning.

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781839215001