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Learn Python the Hard Way: A Deceptively Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Data Science, 5th Edition
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Learn Python the Hard Way: A Deceptively Simple Introduction to the Terrifyingly Beautiful World of Computers and Data Science, 5th Edition

by Zed A. Shaw
February 2024
Beginner
352 pages
8h 16m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Exercise 56

Using Only pandas

In this exercise you’ll take the mess of random scripts you’ve made and create one clean tool that uses only pandas for the entire process. You’ll do this for both the TTB beer statistics and the video watch time for my website.

Make a Project

It’s time to get cleaned up and make a project for this exercise. You don’t need to install this project, but it should have all the required project files, automated tests, a README.md, and the scripts necessary to run your tools.

The Problem

You’ve been promoted! I got tired of the senior developer who was only able to produce CSV files, and now you’re in charge of my beer and video watch time empire. I want you to create a single tool that does everything you’ve learned ...

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