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Practical Data Wrangling
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Practical Data Wrangling

by Allan Visochek
November 2017
Beginner to intermediate
204 pages
5h 23m
English
Packt Publishing
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Logistical overview

Each of the chapters will begin with a logistical overview, detailing the projects involved in the chapter, installation requirements, the file system setup for the projects and other useful details. These initial Logistical Overview sections will help you to get set up to follow along with the chapter.  

In this chapter, I will walk through the creation of one Python program called hello_world.py. I will walk through the steps of creating the python program at the beginning of the chapter.

I will also introduce an interface for executing python commands directly called the terminal. Using the terminal, I will demonstrate several elementary programming concepts. 

The finished product for the python program, as well as ...

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ISBN: 9781787286139