1. Data Preparation and Cleaning
Overview
In this chapter, you'll learn the skills required to process and clean data to effectively ready it for further analysis. Using the pandas library in Python, you will learn how to read and import data from various file formats, including JSON and CSV, into a DataFrame. You'll then learn how to perform slicing, aggregation, and filtering on DataFrames. By the end of the chapter, you will consolidate your data cleaning skills by learning how to join DataFrames, handle missing values, and even combine data from various sources.