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Practical Data Wrangling

You're reading from   Practical Data Wrangling Expert techniques for transforming your raw data into a valuable source for analytics

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787286139
Length 204 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Allan Visochek Allan Visochek
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Preface 1. Programming with Data FREE CHAPTER 2. Introduction to Programming in Python 3. Reading, Exploring, and Modifying Data - Part I 4. Reading, Exploring, and Modifying Data - Part II 5. Manipulating Text Data - An Introduction to Regular Expressions 6. Cleaning Numerical Data - An Introduction to R and RStudio 7. Simplifying Data Manipulation with dplyr 8. Getting Data from the Web 9. Working with Large Datasets

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In summary, as datasets become larger and larger, it becomes important to consider how to manage memory while processing data, and how to store data to make it easy to work with and retrieve. Sufficiently large datasets should be processed entry by entry and not as a whole in order to preserve memory. For datasets that will need to be accessed frequently, it can be helpful to store and retrieve the data through a local database instance. This concludes the third and final section of Practical Data Wrangling! Congratulations!

In this book, I've made an effort to cover a wide range of approaches to data wrangling in order to give you the flexibility to tackle both standard and non-standard data wrangling challenges practically, efficiently, effectively, and with confidence. You should now have a broad and powerful set of tools that you can use to manipulate data and...

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