Python Real-World Projects

Chapter 11 Project 3.7: Interim Data Persistence

Our goal is to create files of clean, converted data we can then use for further analysis. To an extent, the goal of creating a file of clean data has been a part of all of the previous chapters. We’ve avoided looking deeply at the interim results of acquisition and cleaning. This chapter formalizes some of the processing that was quietly assumed in those earlier chapters. In this chapter, we’ll look more closely at two topics:

• File formats and data persistence

• The architecture of applications

11.1 Description

In the previous chapters, particularly those starting with Chapter 9, Project 3.1: Data Cleaning Base Application, the question of ”persistence” was dealt with casually. The previous ...