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Basic Python for Data Management, Finance, and Marketing: Advance Your Career by Learning the Most Powerful Analytical Tool
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Basic Python for Data Management, Finance, and Marketing: Advance Your Career by Learning the Most Powerful Analytical Tool

by Art Yudin
September 2021
Beginner
324 pages
5h 38m
English
Apress
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A. YudinBasic Python for Data Management, Finance, and Marketinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7189-6_4

4. Gathering Data with Python

Art Yudin1  
(1)
South Amboy, NJ, USA
 

Information is an essential piece of data analysis. It comes from diverse sources in different formats. Some information requires a lot of effort to obtain; other data comes clean and structured. Python is a great tool to gather and manipulate any data in any format.

Programming has automated the tedious manual process of copying and pasting information from online sources to spreadsheets. In this chapter, we will discuss various approaches to gathering data. We will start with web scraping ...

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