Chapter 12. Data Manipulation
In the previous chapter, you learned the methods used to access different types of databases such as relational databases (SQLite and MySQL) and non-relational databases (MongoDB and Redis). Relational databases usually return data in a tabular form, while non-relational databases may support nested data structures and other features.
Even though the data is loaded into memory, it is usually far from ready for data analysis. Most data at this stage still needs cleaning and transforming, which, in fact, may take a large proportion of time before any statistical model and visualization can be applied. In this chapter, you'll learn about a set of built-in functions and several packages for data manipulation. The packages ...
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