Video description
Discover the data analysis capabilities of the Python Pandas software library in this introduction to data wrangling and data analytics. Designed for learners with some core knowledge of Python, you'll explore the basics of importing, exporting, parsing, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data.
This course is an introduction to Pandas, where you'll learn to filter, group, match, and join data and then move on to advanced functions like analyzing trends and normalizing your data. There is also an introduction to some nifty skills like web scraping, working with API data, fuzzy matching, multiprocessing, and analyzing code performance.
- Master the basics of Python data wrangling and data analysis
- Discover the Pandas software library and its use as a data analysis tool
- Learn to pull data from disparate sources (Excel, CSV, PDF, APIs, etc.)
- Explore web scraping and how to handle encoding and decoding
- Understand how to identify and clean data using RegEx and fuzzy matching
- Sample other data analysis tools like natural language processing and Numpy
- Learn the data visualization capabilities of Matplotlib and Bokeh
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Table of contents
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Introduction
- Welcome To The Course 00:02:13
- About The Author 00:01:06
- Local Setup, What We'll Be Using 00:03:27
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Getting The Data
- Basic Files 00:04:56
- Excel Files 00:05:47
- PDF Files 00:04:00
- Using PDF Tables 00:06:17
- Streaming And Rest APIs: Twitter 00:10:21
- Using APIs Without Libraries 00:04:41
- Introduction To Web Scraping 00:03:36
- Building Your Own Web Scraper 00:06:44
- Python 2 vs Python 3 Encoding 00:06:17
- A Word On Encoding 00:06:33
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Data Analysis With Pandas
- Pandas Data Structures 00:08:06
- Pandas Data Types 00:04:23
- Filtering With Pandas 00:08:31
- Combining Datasets 00:06:25
- Joining Datasets 00:08:23
- Split-Apply-Combine 00:06:53
- Simple Statistics With Pandas 00:07:05
- Standardizing Your Data 00:06:58
- Normalizing Your Data 00:04:12
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Cleaning Your Data
- Identifying "Bad" Data 00:08:17
- Simple String Parsing With Regex 00:08:46
- Fuzzy Matching 00:04:55
- Storing Your Data (Local And Cloud) 00:06:51
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Pandas. More Advanced Functionality
- Identifying Trends 00:04:54
- Identifying Outliers 00:05:34
- Monitoring Speed/Performance 00:06:05
- Parallelizing 00:05:39
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Other Advanced Data Libraries
- Natural Language Processing 00:05:02
- Introduction To Numpy And Scipy 00:04:35
- Visualization With Matplotlib And Bokeh 00:05:16
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Conclusion
- Where To Go Next 00:03:28
Product information
- Title: Data Wrangling and Analysis with Python
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2016
- Publisher(s): Infinite Skills
- ISBN: 9781491960813
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