Statistics for Data Science
by James C. Mott, Rajprasath Subramanian, Shaikh Salamatullah, James D. Miller, Vijayakumar Ramdoss
Munging and wrangling
The terms munging and wrangling are buzzwords or jargon meant to describe one's efforts to affect the format of data, recordset, or file in some way in an effort to prepare the data for continued or otherwise processing and/or evaluations.
With data development, you are most likely familiar with the idea of Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL). In somewhat the same way, a data developer may mung or wrangle data during the transformation steps within an ETL process.
Common munging and wrangling may include removing punctuation or HTML tags, data parsing, filtering, all sorts of transforming, mapping, and tying together systems and interfaces that were not specifically designed to interoperate. Munging can also describe ...
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