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Fundamentals of Data Wrangling

The relationship between humans and data is age old. Knowing that our brains can capture and store only a limited amount of information, we had to create ways to keep and organize data.

The first idea of keeping and storing data goes back to 19000 BC (as stated in https://www.thinkautomation.com/histories/the-history-of-data/) when a bone stick is believed to have been used to count things and keep information engraved on it, serving as a tally stick. Since then, words, writing, numbers, and many other forms of data collection have been developed and evolved.

In 1663, John Graunt performed one of the first recognized data analyses, studying births and deaths by gender in the city of London, England.

In 1928, ...

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