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The Data Wrangling Workshop

You're reading from   The Data Wrangling Workshop Create your own actionable insights using data from multiple raw sources

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839215001
Length 576 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dr. Tirthajyoti Sarkar Dr. Tirthajyoti Sarkar
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Shubhadeep Roychowdhury Shubhadeep Roychowdhury
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Brian Lipp Brian Lipp
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface
1. Introduction to Data Wrangling with Python 2. Advanced Operations on Built-In Data Structures FREE CHAPTER 3. Introduction to NumPy, Pandas, and Matplotlib 4. A Deep Dive into Data Wrangling with Python 5. Getting Comfortable with Different Kinds of Data Sources 6. Learning the Hidden Secrets of Data Wrangling 7. Advanced Web Scraping and Data Gathering 8. RDBMS and SQL 9. Applications in Business Use Cases and Conclusion of the Course Appendix

Introduction

In the previous chapter, we learned about databases. It is time to combine our knowledge of data wrangling and Python with a realistic scenario. Usually, data from one source is often inadequate to perform analysis. Generally, a data wrangler has to distinguish between relevant and non-relevant data and combine data from different sources.

The primary job of a data wrangling expert is to pull data from multiple sources, format and clean it (impute the data if it is missing), and finally combine it in a coherent manner to prepare a dataset for further analysis by data scientists or machine learning engineers.

In this chapter, we will try to mimic a typical task flow by downloading and using two different datasets from reputed web portals. Each dataset contains partial data pertaining to the key question that is being asked. Let's examine this more closely.

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