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Learn Data Science Using Python: A Quick-Start Guide
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Learn Data Science Using Python: A Quick-Start Guide

by Engy Fouda
November 2024
Beginner to intermediate
190 pages
3h 1m
English
Apress
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E. FoudaLearn Data Science Using Pythonhttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0935-4_5

5. Data Preprocessing and Feature Engineering

Engy Fouda1  
(1)
Hopewell Junction, NY, USA
 

This chapter shows some essential data cleaning and querying methods, such as comment statement, arithmetic, and comparison operators, and how to represent missing values and loops.

Comment Statement

It is crucial to document your code so you and your peers can understand the reasoning behind how the analysis is constructed. In general, if you do not document your code, you might look at it after a few months and not remember why you used a certain function or why you made a certain check. ...

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