6 Clean and prepare
This chapter covers
- Understanding the types of errors that you might find in your data
- Identifying problems in your data
- Implementing strategies for fixing or working around bad data
- Preparing your data for effective use in production
When we’re working with data, it’s crucial that we can trust our data and work with it effectively. Almost every data-wrangling project is front-loaded with an effort to fix problems and prepare the data for use.
You may have heard that cleanup and preparation equal 80% of the work! I’m not sure about that, but certainly preparation is often a large proportion of the total work.
Time invested at this stage helps save us from later discovering that we’ve been working with unreliable or ...
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